Quotes about garden
garden light saws
In this light, my spirit saw through all things and into all creatures and I recognized God in grass and plants.
garden enemy sculpture
In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture-it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener. Jamaica Kincaid
garden appreciate taught
The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.
garden roots long
Dear me! We Tooks and Brandybucks, we can't live long on the heights.' 'No,' said Merry. 'I can't. Not yet, at any rate. But at least, Pippin, we can now see them, and honour them. It is best to love first what you are fitted to love, I suppose: you must start somewhere and have some roots, and the soil of the Shire is deep. Still there are things deeper and higher; and not a gaffer could tend his garden in what he calls peace but for them, whether he knows about them or not. J. R. R. Tolkien
garden tree facts
I am in fact a hobbit (in all but size). I like gardens, trees and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated).
garden thinking evil
Our minds work like a garden. It is fertile ground that accepts any and everything we plant. Good or evil, constructive or destructive, our lives will bear the fruit of the seeds we plant in our minds. Iyanla Vanzant
garden play empty
Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden? Elton John
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 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 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 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
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 blessing two
There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and a fruit tree or two. Those families will be fortunate who, in the last days, have an adequate supply of food because of their foresight and ability to produce their own. Ezra Taft Benson
garden imagination goal
One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning? Francis Cabot Lowell
garden pleasure humans
Gardening is the purest of human pleasures. Francis Bacon
garden water frogs
For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.
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