Gardening Quote by Frances Hodgson Burnett

“He was beginning to see her as a locked garden that he could sneak into and sit in for days, tearing the heads off…

— Mary Gaitskill

“It seemed to her that certain parts of the world must produce happiness as they produced peculiar plants which will flourish nowhere else.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“She would bloom where she was planted and let her roots close around the throats of her enemies.”

— Julie C. Dao

“She was, as you know already without as yet knowing anything, the Lily of this valley, where she grew for heaven, filling it with…

— Honoré de Balzac

“Before he left, he took an ivy leaf from a book that was in his pocket and handed it to me, with greetings from…

— Oddný Eir

“Eleven years she had lived in the dark house and its gloomy garden. He was jealous of the very light and air getting to…

— Charles Dickens

“Her thoughts rambled, but she wasn’t daydreaming. Her senses were sharp. She caught the fall of every leaf in the garden, the rustle of…

— Kristin Cashore

“She found that the whole world could be contained in one place because that place was herself. Nothing had prepared her for this.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“I think that her life was about finding the extraordinary in every day. It was how she could sit in her garden on a…

— Karen White

“She wishes she had looked more closely at every bit of her world when she was growing up so she could give more of…

— Margaret Wrinkle

“She didn't want to go far, just out of the trees so that she could see the stars. They always eased her lonesomeness. She…

— Kristin Cashore