Quotes about garden
garden europe people
People watched the Masters. It was a huge event. It was at The Garden. Now that it is over here in Europe, it has lost a little bit of popularity in the States. Pete Sampras
garden goal creation
Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense. Phyllis McGinley
garden rivers spiders
I sing Connecticut, her charms / Of rivers, orchards, blossoming ridges. / I sing her gardens, fences, farms, / Spiders and midges.
garden doe obsession
The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.
garden views years
To the bird watcher, the suburbanite who derives joy from birds in his garden, the hunter, the fisherman or the explorer of wild regions, anything that destroys the wildlife of an area for even a single year has deprived him of pleasure to which he has a legitimate right. This is a valid point of view. Rachel Carson
garden yesterday remembrance
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance. Queen Elizabeth II
garden play heaven
It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really possible to say the highest things in praise of it. It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. Gilbert K. Chesterton
garden clouds weather
[V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode.... an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy castle. Clouds and colours of every varied dawn and eve are perpetually touching and turning it from clay to gold, or from gold to ivory. There is a line of woodland beyond a corner of my garden which is literally different on every one of the three hundred and sixty-five days. Sometimes it seems as near as a hedge, and sometimes as far as a faint and fiery evening cloud.
garden grandchildren play
I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about. Julie Andrews
garden heaven ordinary
Because,” he said quietly as she stood up, “until you walked into it, this was an ordinary garden.” Puzzled, Elizabeth tipped her head. “What is it now?” “Heaven. Judith McNaught
garden hair cities
I am in Paris. Yes ma'am , I made it back. I came up from Berlin, stopped here ten days, fought a losing battle against my deepest inclinations, pulled myself out by the hair and went to Madrid...Madrid is a lovely enchanting city, and there was almost ready for me a kind of penthouse full of sunlight, a roof garden, and so on. I gave one look at it all, returned to the hotel and went to bed and wept bitterly for eleven hours...Why? Because I had seen Paris and could not endure the thought of being anywhere else... Katherine Anne Porter
garden littles way
There are several ways to lay out a little garden; the best way is to get a gardener. Karel Capek
garden house stranger
But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides," she said. "It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." ~ The House at Riverton Kate Morton
garden night waiting
The certainty that she would find what it was she sought just slipped away, until one night she knew there was nothing, no one waiting for her. That no matter how far she walked, how carefully she searched, how much she wanted to find the person she was looking for, she was alone" - The Forgotten Garden
garden hands earth
It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.
garden people littles
Plants are like people: they're all different and a little bit strange. John Kehoe
garden sky listening
The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft; and gathering swallows twitter in the skies. John Keats
garden scratches chickens
One legged chickens, I know, are the least apt to scratch a garden. Josh Billings
garden eden yankees
Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage; put an Irishman in, and he would want to boss the thing; put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed to plant it.
garden bears would-be
Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible; without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden. Ouida
garden house world
Beauty is what I feel my life is about - the garden, the house, whatever. I see the world that way, yet it isn't. Julie Newmar
garden needs helping
It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle? Julian Fellowes
garden white house
I was born in a lovely white house with a garden. Judy Garland
garden discipline schedules
The rich fruit of spontaneity grows in the garden that is well tended by the discipline of schedule. John Piper
garden sowing digging
In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure. Martin Luther
garden fields evolution
God is entirely and personally present in the wilderness, in the garden, in the field.
garden would-be plant
If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.
garden agriculture goal
The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings. Masanobu Fukuoka
garden done littles
In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen. Martha Gellhorn
garden world fruit
The work of a garden bears visible fruits-in a world where most of our labours seem suspiciously meaningless. Pam Brown
garden vegetables interesting
Interesting, he later reflected, was perhaps not the correct word.By the time he and Henry arrived back at the house for their midday meal-a scrumptious bowl of hot, sticky porridge-he had mucked out the stable stalls, milked a cow, been pecked by three separate hens, weeded a vegetable garden, and fallen into a trough. Julia Quinn
garden wicked said
Daphne felt something wild and wicked take hold. “Let’s walk in the garden,” she said softly. “We can’t.” “We must.” “We can’t.
garden squares today
How were the receipts today in Madison Square Garden ? P. T. Barnum