Best Gardens Wisdom
314 Gardens quotes by 241 unique authors
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When I'm in London, I love to visit Kensington gardens and just sit in the park and read a good book.
— Natalie Imbruglia
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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
— Douglas William Jerrold
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I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.
— Elton John
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I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what…
— Elton John
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Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
— Rudyard Kipling
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The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.
— Lillie Langtry
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I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a…
— Christian Louboutin
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My business partner gave me a drone, a small helicopter you pilot with an iPhone, and also it has a camera so you can see…
— Christian Louboutin
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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
— James Russell Lowell
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Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
— Marianne Moore
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I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin.…
— Rachael Ray
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I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists,…
— Jerry Saltz
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Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an…
— May Sarton
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How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
— Alexander Smith
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A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
— Gertrude Stein
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Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions,…
— David Suzuki
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In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and…
— Andrew Weil
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
— Oscar Wilde
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Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch…
— Alice Hoffman
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Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind. The pines taught…
— Octavio Paz
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In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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and I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. and i will never grow so old…
— Van Morrison
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If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me.. For I have blossomed so much, I am the…
— Rumi
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But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?...aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and…
— Libba Bray
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The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient…
— C.S. Lewis
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