Garden Quotes
Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves.
One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards.
Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.
The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.
My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.
We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.
The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.
How are we to breed a race of human thoroughbreds unless we follow the same plan? We must make this country into a garden of children instead of a disorderly back lot overrun with human weeds.
I've read all the books but one Only remains sacred: this Volume of wonders, open Always before my eyes.
The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in one hand and a cold drink in the other, tell somebody else where to dig.
What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights.
If we can have a fast food restaurant on almost every corner, then we can certainly have a garden.
I think people should maybe just go out into the garden and watch a ladybug crawl across a flower and relax their mind. That's about all you need to know about life, I think.
The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.
But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life
Go out by yourself, face the wind, hold up your head and thank God for this gardening year.
I don't think we'll ever know all there is to know about gardening, and I'm just as glad there will always be some magic about it!
It's the sheer joy of seeing things grow and helping them to grow, even harvesting the stuff that you've grown yourself, no matter how old you are.
One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.
If you are a garden plant you are regarded; well regarded, just as long as you stay in the garden.
The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.
To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds.
A house though otherwise beautiful, yet if it hath no garden belonging to it, is more like a prison than a house.
Be pleased with your real garden, don't persue the perfection of a picture. What you see in a photo lasted only as long as the shutter snap.
We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is.
She was sitting in a garden more beautiful than even her rampaging imagination could ever have conjured up, and she was being serenaded by trees.
A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ. And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it.
Wherever you have a plot of land, however small, plant a garden. Staying close to the soil is good for the soul.
