Desert Quote by Robert Duncan

The first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys of the…

— Penelope Hobhouse

As Paradise (though of God's own Planting) was no longer Paradise than the Man was put into it, to dress it and to keep…

— John Evelyn

Let those desert places in our hearts bloom.

— Pope Francis

Gardens are our link with the divine.

— William Howard Adams

Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise.

— Henry Mitchell

Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there, a city, a…

— Anonymous

It's strange how deserts turn us into believers. I believe in walking in a landscape of mirages, because you learn humility. I believe in…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“If the nature of the world is revealed to man through religion, then gardens, as places for contemplation, should symbolise the perfection of nature.”

— Tom Turner

That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ. And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it.

— Winifred Mary Letts

How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?

— Magnus Larsson

God Almighty first planted a garden.

— Francis Bacon Sr

Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary.

— Amy Waldman