Accomplish Quote by Francis Cabot

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very…

— Francis Cabot Lowell

Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.

— Francis Cabot Lowell

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months hence. I…

— Alice Morse Earle

“To look after a garden involves a kind of getting to know that is somehow always in process. It entails refining and developing an…

— Sue Stuart-Smith

A garden is a human creation. It has to be thought of first, wished into being, planned for like a child.

— Amy N. Stewart

From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.

— Ann Voskamp

Let me define a garden as the meeting of raw nature and the human imagination in which both seek the fulfillment of their beauty.…

— Thomas Moore

What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something wrong, stop to set…

— Dorothy Gilman

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

“Physically, gardens must have boundaries. Mentally, they can reach to the limits of the known universe. The ideas that bestow such vast extent upon…

— Tom Turner

The more contemplative gardener, seeing the garden as a whole, the design of it, and its nature as a still place of delight and…

— Susan Hill

Gardeners (or just plain simple writers who write about the garden) always have something they like intensely and in particular, right at the moment…

— Jamaica Kincaid