Quotes about garden
garden spades dies
Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel. Herbert V. Prochnow
garden order soul
The order of things should be reversed; the seventh day should be the day of toil...and the other six his Sabbath of the affections and the soul, in which to range this widerspread garden, and drink in the soft influences and sublime revelations of Nature... Henry David Thoreau
garden simplicity simple-life
Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Henry David Thoreau
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. Henry David Thoreau
garden environmental vigor
Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw. Henry David Thoreau
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. Henry David Thoreau
garden eden temptation
Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden. Jerry Falwell
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 empowering path
If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path. Fran Drescher
garden careers mind
I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the vain glory which can be acquired from ravaging it by the most uninterrupted career of conquests. George Washington
garden smell decay
Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay. George Meredith
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 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
garden house bottles
I was playing organ at a silent movie house at Harlem and they'd be showing some death scene on the screen. Likely as not, I'd grab a bottle and start swingin' out on 'Squeeze Me' or 'Royal Garden Blues'. The managers complained but, heck, they couldn't stop me! Fats Waller
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. Jean-Paul Sartre
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 vines
Hee that is in a Taverne thinkes he is in a vine-garden. George Herbert
garden gave higher last miss standing
He probably gave away 55 zucchini last year. The garden was huge. It was higher than him. Even if he was standing up in it, you had to look to find him. We're going to miss it.
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
gardens gave goodly heritage noble thus
How many of the gardens and fountains have they left! / And cornfields and noble places! / And goodly things wherein they rejoiced; / Thus (it was), and We gave them as a heritage to another people.
garden play empty
Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden? Elton John
garden law world
My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public. Ian Hamilton Finlay
garden thinking littles
Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it. Ian Hamilton Finlay
garden people collaboration
I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions. Ian Hamilton Finlay
garden retreat certain
Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks. Ian Hamilton Finlay
garden numbers doe
The possession of a quantity of plants, however good the plants may be themselves and however ample their number, does not make a garden; it only makes a collection. Having got the plants, the great thing is to use them with careful selection and definite intention. Gertrude Jekyll
garden giving jekyll
There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight. Gertrude Jekyll
garden giving wish
The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives. Gertrude Jekyll