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314 Gardens quotes by 241 unique authors
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England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and…
— Stephen Daldry
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While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns its architectural expression…
— Lewis Mumford
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Introverts are offered keys to private gardens full of riches. To possess such a key is to tumble like Alice down her rabbit hole. She…
— Susan Cain
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When the time came for me to work with larger spaces, I conceived them as gardens, not as sites with objects but as relationships to…
— Isamu Noguchi
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Is there any sign of spring quite so welcome as the glint of the first bluebird unless it is his softly whistled song? No wonder…
— Neltje Blanchan
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Snowstorms may yet whiten fields and gardens, high winds may howl about the trees and chimneys, but the little blue heralds persistently proclaim from the…
— Neltje Blanchan
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No one lives on the top of the mountain. It's fine to go there occasionally -for inspiration, for new perspectives. But you have to come…
— Arthur Gordon Webster
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Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens. There were many…
— Beverley Nichols
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The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light.
— John Muir
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These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes-nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect,…
— Rachel Carson
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In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.
— H P Lovecraft
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One must first seek to love plants and nature, and then to cultivate that happy peace of mind which is satisfied with little. He will…
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
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Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs…
— H P Lovecraft
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Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body…
— John Muir
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Beautiful city! . . . spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . .…
— Matthew Arnold
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If we want to write, it makes sense to read—and to read like a writer. If we wanted to grow roses, we would want to…
— Francine Prose
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In the closed world of the gynaeceum, despite the gardens and parkland extending beyong the horizon, despite the insurmountable walls separating pavillions and palaces, the…
— Shan Sa
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Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle…
— William Wordsworth
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How many men are like trees, already strong and full grown, which are transplanted into some gardens, to the astonishment of those people who behold…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and…
— Ina Garten
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Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
— Khalil Gibran
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
— Walt Disney
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Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked with volleyball courts…
— Maureen Dowd
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A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus…
— Katherine Dunham
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Protecting vital sources of renewal - unscathed marshes, healthy reefs, and deep-sea gardens - will provide hope for the future of the Gulf, and for…
— Sylvia Earle
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