Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Briers

An hour's hard digging is a good way of getting one's mind back in the right perspective.

Renata Adler

Lyda was an exuberant, even a dramatic gardener.... She was always holding up a lettuce or a bunch of radishes with an air of resolute courage, as though she had shot them herself.

Stephen Gardiner

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden

Stephen Fry

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Sri Aurobindo

Only the soul that is naked and unashamed, can be pure and innocent , even as Adam was in the primal garden of humanity .

Ruth Asawa

The best ideas come unexpectedly from a conversation or a common activity like watering the garden. These can get lost or slip away if not acted on when they occur.

Roger Taylor

It's amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again.

Thomas Jefferson

I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. Such a variety of subjects, some one always coming to perfection, the failure of one thing repaired by the success of another, and instead of one harvest a continued one through the year.

Thomas Jefferson

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

Thomas Jefferson

I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.

Thomas Jefferson

Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

Thomas Jefferson

Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

Robert Creeley

I will go to the garden. I will be a romantic. I will sell myself in hell, in heaven also I will be.

Rob Sheffield

The first season of 'Community' stumbled a bit because the plotlines too often veered into realism, but that is not a problem anymore. Not when prize episodes concern a campuswide blanket fort, or a secret garden with a magic trampoline.

Voltaire

Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden.

Voltaire

All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being kicked in the backside for love of Miss Cunegonde, if you hadn't been sent before the Inquisition, if you hadn't traveled across America on foot, if you hadn't given a good sword thrust to the baron, if you hadn't lost all your sheep from the good land of Eldorado, you wouldn't be sitting here eating candied citron and pistachios. - That is very well put, said Candide, but we must cultivate our garden.

Voltaire

I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

Voltaire

Let us cultivate our garden.

Voltaire

It is up to us to cultivate our garden.

William Least Heat-Moon

The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did.

William Butler Yeats

All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.

William Butler Yeats

Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her did not agree. In a field by the river my love and I did stand, And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand. She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs; But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.

William Butler Yeats

Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Natural objects themselves, even when they make no claim to beauty, excite the feelings, and occupy the imagination. Nature pleases, attracts, delights, merely because it is nature. We recognize in it an Infinite Power.

William Kent

A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.

William Kent

Garden as though you will live forever.

Yo-Yo Ma

It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.

Winston Churchill

Every garden presents innumerable fascinating problems.

William Lawson

A garden makes all our senses swim with pleasure.

William Lawson

Whoever has not learned to let Nature have her way is not fit for a gardener, or, for that matter, for a contented soul. A garden makes all our senses swim with pleasure.

William Lawson

What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights.

William Wordsworth

Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle our impatient steps; Conducted through those labyrinths, unawares, To privileged regions and inviolate, Where from their airy lodges studious lawyers Look out on waters, walks, and gardens green.

William Shenstone

A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.