Garden Quote by Julian Fellowes

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

— Charles Caleb Colton

A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the…

— William Kent

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

— Samuel Johnson

Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden… It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts…

— Muriel Spark

I prefer the gloominess to the sun. I don't know why.

— Skrillex

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is…

— May Sarton

To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment.

— Eleanor Perenyi

Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending.

— Barbara Holland

We're sitting under the tree of our thinking minds, wondering why we're not getting any sunshine!

— Ram Dass

Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live…

— Samuel Johnson

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too…

— Jarvis Cocker