Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Muir

Government protection should be thrown around every wild grove and forest on the mountains, as it is around every private orchard, and the trees in public parks. To say nothing of their value as fountains of timber, they are worth infinitely more than all the gardens and parks of towns.

John Muir

One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.

John Steinbeck

Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.

John Piper

The rich fruit of spontaneity grows in the garden that is well tended by the discipline of schedule.

Martin Luther

In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.

Martin Luther

God is entirely and personally present in the wilderness, in the garden, in the field.

If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.

Seth Gabel

The way that people are watching TV is changing. The landscape of television is changing. Movies are becoming much more insular. They're like a walled garden, where you know what you're going to see and you expect it. But in the world of TV, because it's episodic, you can explore any area because you have time to do that. You can take risks on the kinds of storytelling that you're doing.

Seth Godin

Great projects, like great careers and relationships that last, are gardens. They are tended, they shift, they grow. They endure over time, gaining a personality and reflecting their environment. When something dies or fades away, we prune, replant and grow again.

Theodore Roosevelt

To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees.

Margaret Drabble

I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest. I'll be all right; I've got a few veg.

Margaret Fuller

The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's bloom, or it's garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs.

Kin Hubbard

In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it.

Michael Fish

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.

Michael Palin

Somewhere, a long way away, people are doing sensible things like mowing lawns and digging gardens.

Michael Horton

God's church is not a stage for us to perform on but a garden for us to grow in.

Henry Beard

Garden: One of a vast number of free outdoor restaurants operated by charity-minded amateurs in an effort to provide healthful, balanced meals for insects, birds and animals.

Henry Beard

The true definition of a perennial: Any plant which, had it lived, would have bloomed year after year.

Helen Humphreys

What I've always found interesting in gardens is looking at what people choose to plant there. What they put in. What they leave out. One small choice and then another, and soon there is a mood, an atmosphere, a series of limitations, a world.

Henry Beston

If gardeners will forget a little the phrase, "watering the plants" and think of watering as a matter of "watering the earth" under the plants, keeping up its moisture content and gauging its need, the garden will get on very well.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

Henry David Thoreau

Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

Mary Wesley

I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.

Paula Deen

I know when you think about the South, you think about fried foods, but we eat a tremendous amount of vegetables. I have my own garden, so vegetables have always been a big part of my life. I love broccoli. I love fresh beets. It's not all about the fried chicken and the biscuits.

Mary Engelbreit

Bloom where you are planted!

Mary Engelbreit

Happiness must be grown in one's own garden.

Mary E. Pearson

I decide that sometimes definitions are wrong. Even if they're written in a dictionary. Identities aren't always separate and distinct. Sometimes they ARE wrapped up with others. Sometimes, for a few minutes, maybe they can even be shared. And if I am ever fortunate enough to return to Mr. Bender's garden, I wonder if the birds will see that piece of him that is wrapped up in me.

Laurie Lee

In America, even your menus have the gift of language.... The Chef's own Vienna Roast. A hearty, rich meat loaf, gently seasoned to perfection and served in a creamy nest of mashed farm potatoes and strictly fresh garden vegetables. Of course, what you get is cole slaw and a slab of meat, but that doesn't matter because the menu has already started your juices going. Oh, those menus. In America, they are poetry.

James Hunter

As leaders we do not create growth. The best we can do is create an environment that is conducive to growth. It is like planting a garden. You do not cause the seeds to grow. To grow is their natural purpose in life.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

A garden is half made when it is well planned.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

One must first seek to love plants and nature, and then to cultivate that happy peace of mind which is satisfied with little. He will be happier if he has no rigid and arbitrary ideals, for gardens are coquettish, particularly with the novice.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Tools of many kinds and well chosen, are one of the joys of a garden.

Libba Bray

I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.