Custodians Quote by Nelson Mandela

A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.

— Beverley Nichols

A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.

— Charles Lamb

In some ways, I saw the garden as a metaphor for certain aspects of my life. A leader must also tend his garden; he,…

— Nelson Mandela

Whoever has not learned to let Nature have her way is not fit for a gardener, or, for that matter, for a contented soul.…

— William Lawson

I have found, through years of practice, that people garden in order to make something grow; to interact with nature; to share, to find…

— Julie Moir Messervy

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

— Amy N. Stewart

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

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone…

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.

— John Henry Newman

To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Living Things. The garden can be as unlimited a resource as you want it to be. It's an escape from everything if you just…

— Hazel Hawke