Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Frost

The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.

Robert Frost

We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure.

Rick Nielsen

Madison Square Garden sounds like crap.

Thomas Moore

The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.

Thomas Browne

Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth.

Timothy Leary

That intermediate manifestation of the divine process which we call the DNA code has spent the last 2 billion years making this planet a Garden of Eden.

Timothy Leary

Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.

Thomas Sowell

Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.

Vita Sackville-West

My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme,

Vita Sackville-West

Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of size or wealth.

Vita Sackville-West

Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.

Robin McKinley

I like to assume that since I drive a car and maintain a respectable credit rating and rarely murder anyone and bury them in the back garden unless they really deserve it, that the fact that I hear voices wont unduly disturb anyone.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All nature seems at work.

Toots Thielemans

Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!

Rebecca Solnit

All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.

Rudyard Kipling

Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.

Samuel Johnson

A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.

Roberto Burle Marx

I did a salad, but I didn't do a garden.

Roberto Burle Marx

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

Robert Penn Warren

There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.

Virginia Woolf

She tapped on the window with her embossed hairbrush. They were too far off to hear. The drone of the trees was in their ears; the chirp of birds; other incidents of garden life, inaudible, invisible to her in the bedroom, absorbed them. Isolated on a green island, hedged about with snowdrops, laid with a counterpane of puckered silk, the innocent island floated under her window. Only George lagged behind.

William Blake

And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')

Wallace Stegner

You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time.

Samuel Beckett

Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage that in the end he remembers the exact spot in the garden and the kind of life he led there before joining the family circle.

Rudy Rucker

When I see an old movie, like from the ’40s or ’50s or ’60s, the people look so calm. They don’t have smartphones, they’re not looking at computer screens, they’re taking their time. They’ll sit in a chair and just stare off into space. I think some day we’ll find our way back to that garden of Eden.

W. S. Merwin

In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of water, the origin and guide of its contours and gradients and of all the lives - the plants and small creatures, and the culture - that evolved here. That was always here to be seen, of course, and the recognition has forced itself, in one form or other, upon people in every part of the world who have been directly involved with the growing of living things. The gardener who ignores it is soon left with no garden.

W. S. Merwin

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 appearance, to human design and effort, human conventions and convenience, and the human pursuit of that elusive, indefinable harmony that we call beauty. It has a life of its own, an intricate, willful, secret life, as any gardener knows. It is only the humans in it who think of it as a garden. But a garden is a relationship, which is one of the countless reasons why it is never finished.

William Cowper

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

Van Jones

We know that urban farms require less fuel for tractors and transport, but community gardens don't plant themselves.

Tim Vine

People think that because of my act that I must have a really busy mind and I must be driven. I really am not. I quite like going outside and looking at spiders on a hedge in my garden and stuff.

Herbert V. Prochnow

Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel.

Henry David Thoreau

The order of things should be reversed; the seventh day should be the day of toil...and the other six his Sabbath of the affections and the soul, in which to range this widerspread garden, and drink in the soft influences and sublime revelations of Nature...

Henry David Thoreau

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.