Air Quote by Edward Eager

“A garden did not need people in order to be alive and natural. The flowers might have died, and the last leaves might be…

— Madeline Hunter

“There was a time, not long ago When flowers grew all year When days were long And nights star-strewn And men lived free from…

— Katherine Arden

“The sunlight could not quite dispel the difference in atmosphere now that she had seen the interior of the garden. It was as if…

— Deborah Lawrenson

“Somewhere in the garden a nightingale was singing, and a little breeze touched her hair and stirred the leaves overhead. All the different bells…

— Philip Pullman

“Years passed with nothing to show in a land once so enchanted that bees and butterflies slept safe in the blossoms after their nectar…

— Ellen Herrick

“Each day the sun shone, the birds lingered, though the trees were turning, purely out of habit, and their rose and yellow and rust…

— Elizabeth Enright

“Bees were busy, or at least endeavouring to look and sound busy, in the thyme by the trackside. Cloud shadows flickered over the alpine…

— Terry Pratchett

“Gardens in Spring with flowers abound their scent interwoven in the wind”

— Meeta Ahluwalia

“Though men in their hundreds of thousands had tried their hardest to disfigure that little corner of the earth where they had crowded themselves…

— Leo Tolstoy

Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth.

— Thomas Browne

Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.

— William Cowper

There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all…

— Harriette Simpson Arnow