Quotes about garden
garden house gardening
To dwell is to garden. Martin Heidegger
gardening facts sometimes
The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable. Mary McCarthy
garden religion stories
The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations. Oscar Wilde
garden secret landscape
The secret of landscapes isn't creation...It's maintenance. Michael Dolan
garden hands people
As you get older, you have more time on your hands. Some people do croswords and others jigsaws, but I garden. Michael Winner
garden want cabbage
I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden. Michel de Montaigne
garden eden humans
There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden... R. C. Sproul
garden gardening rational
Gardening is not a rational act. Margaret Atwood
garden glasses way
Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out.
garden giving meditation
I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation. Marcus Tullius Cicero
garden delight looks
I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.
garden grace library
If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.
garden victory sugar
The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop. Margaret Carlson
garden novelty natural
We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things. Mark Twain
garden lasting gladness
The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens. Lillie Langtry
garden soul mood
This garden has a soul, I know its moods. Leigh Hunt
garden blood eden
The devil stole into the Garden of Eden. He carried with him the disease - amor deliria nervosa - in the form of a seed. It grew and flowered into a magnificent apple tree, which bore apples as bright as blood. -From Genesis: A Complete History of the World and the Known Universe, by Steven Horace, PhD, Harvard University Lauren Oliver
garden thinking air
I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.
garden rose dancing
She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.
garden people cooking
They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love. Ina Garten
garden sea ebb-and-flow
Wherever Harry went inside the tiny cottage or its garden, he could hear the constant ebb and flow of the sea, like the breathing of some great, slumbering creature. J. K. Rowling
garden thinking fishing
Muggles have garden gnomes, too, you know," Harry told Ron as they crossed the lawn. "Yeah, I've seen those things they think are gnomes," said Ron, bent double with his head in a peony bush, "like fat little Santa Clauses with fishing rods...
garden fire people
Whoever wishes to be delivered from the Fire and enter the Garden should die with faith in God and the Last Day and should treat the people as he wishes to be treated by them.
garden self matter
Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the sensitive viewer out of him or herself and into the garden, so completely that the separate self-sense disappears entirely, and at least for a brief moment one is ushered into a nondual and timeless awareness. A great garden, in other words, is mystical no matter what its actual content. Ken Wilber
garden competition singers
From as young as I can remember, I always wanted to be a singer... My mum taught me 'Going Down the Garden to Eat Worms' for a competition when I was about 4. Katherine Jenkins
garden world birth
To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds. Kate Braverman
garden strange mystery
Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. Ken Kesey
garden mind size
I frowned, wondering if Trent would mind being the size of a fairy for a day. He could talk to the newest tenants in his garden. Kim Harrison
garden perfect
One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't. Ken Thompson
garden average littles
The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.
garden church stage
God's church is not a stage for us to perform on but a garden for us to grow in. Michael Horton
garden community gardening
Gardening has increased, community gardens have increased significantly. There are 50 percent more community gardens right here in Washington DC. Michelle Obama
garden sight vegetables
Ripe vegetables were magic to me. Unharvested, the garden bristled with possibility. I would quicken at the sight of a ripe tomato, sounding its redness from deep amidst the undifferentiated green. To lift a bean plant's hood of heartshaped leaves and discover a clutch of long slender pods handing underneath could make me catch my breath. Michael Pollan