Quotes about garden
garden air use
When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall? Even some sects of philosophers have felt the necessity of importing the woods to themselves, since they did not go to the woods. They planted groves and walks of Plantanes, where they took subdiales ambulationes in porticos open to the air. Of course, it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither. Henry David Thoreau
garden determined beans
I was determined to know beans.
garden environmental vigor
Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.
garden perfect alchemist
Perfect alchemists I keep who can transmute substances without end, and thus the corner of my garden is an inexhaustible treasure-chest. Here you can dig, not gold, but the value which gold merely represents; and there is no Signor Blitz about it.
garden eden temptation
Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden. Jerry Falwell
garden thinking choices
Certainly if I were to think in terms of a field that would have required a different mode of education, I think I would have leaned in the direction of being a therapist. And without the education, or a different kind of education, I think my first choice would be a landscape architect. I love to garden. Jill McCorkle
garden yield growth
A person who loves his or her work Is like a plant in the right spot: There growth is maximized And the yield is greatest. Jeff Cox
garden oil tree
Is a park any better than a coal mine? What's a mountain got that a slag pile hasn't? What would you rather have in your garden--an almond tree or an oil well? Jean Giraudoux
garden exotic plant
I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour. Jacqueline Bisset
garden thinking sometimes
Sometimes I feel like I’m actually on the wrong planet. It’s great when I’m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, ‘What the hell am I doing here? George Harrison
gardening architecture obsessive
I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser. Gates McFadden
garden careers water
It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you'll water your career or your relationship more. Jewel
garden white streets
I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death. Jean-Paul Sartre
garden cities sick
Everything is gratuitous, this garden, this city and myself. When you suddenly realize it, it makes you feel sick and everything begins to drift . . . that's nausea.
garden space rocks
Object in/ and space - the first impulse may be to give the object - a position - to place the object. (The object had a position to begin with.) Next - to change the position of the object. - Rauschenberg's early sculptures - A board with some rocks on it. The rocks can be anywhere on the board. - Cage's Japanese rock garden - The rocks can be anywhere (within the garden)... Jasper Johns
garden six-months hackers
I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus. Jasper Fforde
garden color light
My days could be described as an ever changing palette of blues, greens, browns, and golds. Mostly because of surfing and garden-gazing. On tour, the colors are desaturated by florescent lights and dull grey carpets. Jason Mraz
garden cells sea
A tree is an aerial garden, a botanical migration from the sea, from those earliest plants, the seaweeds; it is a purchase on crumbled rock, on ground. The human, standing, is only a different upsweep and articulation of cells. How treelike we are, how human the tree. Gretel Ehrlich
garden toilets yards
Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate. Iggy Pop
garden take-me spread
My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know. Howard Finster
garden animal ponds
Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond. Gottfried Leibniz
garden great half month months opportunity till time valuable warm
Gardeners, on some of these great days, the warm days, it will give them the opportunity to get out and till their garden a month and a half to two months early, which is really good. It spreads their valuable time out.
garden tree parks
But, say you, surely there is nothing easier than for me to imagine trees, for instance, in a park [. . .] and nobody by to perceive them. [...] The objects of sense exist only when they are perceived; the trees therefore are in the garden [. . .] no longer than while there is somebody by to perceive them. George Berkeley
garden religion pulling-weeds
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. George Bernard Shaw
garden people ramanujan
That was the wonderful thing about Ramanujan. He discovered so much, and yet he left so much more in his garden for other people to discover. Freeman Dyson
garden wind ramanujan
The seeds from Ramanujan's garden have been blowing on the wind and have been sprouting all over the landscape. [On the stimulating effects of Ramanujan's mathematical legacy.]
garden house castles
Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house. Franz Schubert
garden
Feare keepes the garden better then the gardiner. George Herbert
garden cities house
The city mouse lives in a house, The garden mouse lives in a bower Christina Rossetti
garden backyards tripping
Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany. Christian Wiman
garden insulting hollywood
Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement. F. Scott Fitzgerald
garden years afternoon
He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.
garden thinking rose
I think it was in the Rose Garden where I issued this brilliant statement: If I had a magic wand -- but the president doesn't have a magic wand. You just can't say, 'low gas.' George W. Bush