Bluebells Quote by Diana Wynne Jones

“Few people would argue that Stony Cross Park was one of the most beautiful places in England. The Hampshire estate sustained an infinite variety…

— Lisa Kleypas

The divide between a 'wild' plant and what is suitable for the garden is unnatural and meaningless. Gardens begin and end in the mind,…

— Monty Don

If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much a garden…

— Marcel Proust

Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens. There were…

— Beverley Nichols

The great challenge for the garden designer is not to make the garden look natural, but to make the garden so that the people…

— Lawrence Halprin

Large or small, [the garden] should be orderly and rich. It should be well fenced from the outside world. It should by no means…

— William Morris

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

— Michael Pollan

I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.

— Charles Baudelaire

“Blue water extends in rows of gentle ripples to a thin line of barely visible cottonwoods on the far side. The wind dies to…

— Kristen Iversen

Wild flowers grow where they will.

— Rachel Lambert Mellon

A garden is mainly ...a space around which interests can be accumulated.

— Graham Stuart Thomas

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

— Margaret Oliphant