Garden Quote by Eleanor Perenyi Download Open image “A garden is a private world or it is nothing.” — Eleanor Perenyi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Garden Gardening Religion Spirit Spirituality World
A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire. — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man's contribution to the community. — Richardson Wright Copy Share Image
A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign. — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its composition, it’s… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A garden is a human creation. It has to be thought of first, wished into being, planned for like a child. — Amy N. Stewart Copy Share Image
Sooner or later every gardener must face the fact that certain things are going to die on him. It is a temptation to be… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
A gift of flowers to a woman implies that she is as deliciously desirable as the blossoms themselves; but there may be another and… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
I have spoken to plants myself, and if pressed for conclusions would have to say that those I threatened did better than those I… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
I love blue more than any other color. I am inordinately attracted to any blue substance: to minerals like turquoise and lapis lazuli, to… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
To see things in black and white is to see the basics, and I would recommend to any designer of gardens that he go… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
September is the time to begin again. In the country, when I could smell the wood-smoke in the forest, and the curtains could be… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
“I ordered a modern purple martin house myself and proceeded to construct a dreadful object: unpainted, it looked like a cheap motel; painted blue… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
Or perhaps you notice a congregation of ladybugs on a rose stalk. Don't invoke the old nursery saying and ask them to fly away… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
Americans resent the vagaries of weather to a degree unknown to other peoples. ... Weather is a force we have lost touch with. We… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
Possessions can possess you. Even a lawn can possess you. It makes you buy a garden hose. Which makes you water. Which cuts into… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that.… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden… — Daniel K Judd Copy Share Image
A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing. — Esther Meynell Copy Share Image
“In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens -- a ruin,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
When you're the director and the writer, you never have to remember your lines, and there's no one to call you on it. On… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
There was a product on late night TV that you could attach to your garden hose - "You can water your hard-to-reach plants with… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
Plant flowers in others' gardens and your life becomes a bouquet! Submitted by Lisa Letto, Coordinator, Nutrition Resource and Volunteer Centre, College of Pharmacy… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide often between… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives. — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image