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314 Gardens quotes by 241 unique authors

Parks and gardens are the quintessential intimate landscapes. People use them all the time, leaving their energy and memories behind. It's what's left behind that… — Michael Kenna
Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept. — Saint Francis de Sales
The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which surrounds… — Henry David Thoreau
The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities… — Henry David Thoreau
Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The spirits of the air live on the smells Of fruit; and joy, with pinions light, roves round The gardens, or sits singing in the… — William Blake
Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I am Retired Leisure. I am to be met with in trim gardens. I am already come to be known by my vacant face and… — Charles Lamb
No matter where you are you can grow something to eat. Shift your thinking and you'd be surprised at the places your food can be… — Greg Peterson
I envision a day when every city and town has front and back yards, community gardens and growing spaces, nurtured into life by neighbors who… — Greg Peterson
Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide… — Andre Gide
I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. There are but few who consider its… — Wallace Stevens
People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors. — John Betjeman
I wish that every player could feel what I've felt in visiting ballparks. The receptions I've received, it's blown me away. It's absolutely remarkable. — Mark McGwire
Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring as she flung… — Pat Conroy
I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small seed To grow… — E. Nesbit
There are few gardens that can be left alone. A few years of neglect and only the skeleton of a garden can be traced. .… — Russell Page
Right on to the New Period vineyard arbors were the centre and chief ornament of all gardens. — Marie-Luise Gothein
Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with broken glass to discourage escaladores,… — Charles Portis
In my years of public service at both the federal and state levels, I have had the privilege of representing most of the communities that… — Mario Diaz-Balart
The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at… — Robert Fortune
Numerous studies document the benefits to students from school grounds that are ecologically diverse and include free play areas, habitats for wildlife, walking trails, and… — Richard Louv
In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world. — Stephen Gardiner
You may think you don't have talents, but that is a false assumption, for we all have talents and gifts, every one of us. The… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
It is quiet here and restful and the air is delicious. There are gardens everywhere and police spies lie in the bushes. There are nightingales… — Maxim Gorky

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