Best Gardens Words
314 Gardens quotes by 241 unique authors
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Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of…
— Martha Gellhorn
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I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.
— Rumi
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It is my hope that our garden's story-and the stories of gardens across America-will inspire families, schools, and communities to try their own hand at…
— Michelle Obama
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We all grew up in communities with grandmothers who cooked two, three vegetables that you had to eat. There was no ifs, ands or buts…
— Michelle Obama
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The first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys of the Euphrates,…
— Penelope Hobhouse
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Great projects, like great careers and relationships that last, are gardens. They are tended, they shift, they grow. They endure over time, gaining a personality…
— Seth Godin
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Plant flowers in others' gardens and your life becomes a bouquet! Submitted by Lisa Letto, Coordinator, Nutrition Resource and Volunteer Centre, College of Pharmacy and…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads…
— Marianne Moore
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Rumour has it that the gardens of natural history museums are used for surreptitious burial of those intermediate forms between species which might disturb the…
— David Lack
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Wise words are like seeds. The more you scatter them, the more they will grow into infinite gardens of knowledge.
— Suzy Kassem
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Observe this dew-drenched rose of Tyrian gardens A rose today. But you will ask in vain Tomorrow what it is; and yesterday It was the…
— Christina Rossetti
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I see little hope for a nation that values the health of its livestock more than that of its people....Farmers are not criticized for routinely…
— Adelle Davis
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Memories do not change, and change is the law of existence. If our dead, the closest, the most beloved, were to return to us after…
— Teresa de la Parra
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[on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks and silver sugar…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
— Zoe Wanamaker
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Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I…
— Peter Zumthor
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I hope that God forgive us, all of us sinners turn us back into beginners, put us up where the winners go, Holy apartments in…
— Lupe Fiasco
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The Bible is the story of two gardens. Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand.
— Max Lucado
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A thrumming of piano-strings beyond the gardens and through the elms. At length the melody steals into my being. I know not when it began…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the…
— Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon
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There is much to learn about what could happen in the gardens of the future, should designers wish to learn about the past.
— Tom Turner
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Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.
— Tom Turner
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The gardens of my youth were fragrant gardens and it is their sweetness rather than their patterns of their furnishings that I now most clearly…
— Louise Wilder
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A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far more than merely…
— Russell Page
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