Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gertrude Jekyll

In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.

Gertrude Jekyll

I do not envy the owners of very large gardens. The garden should fit its owner or his or her tastes, just as one's clothes do; it should be neither too large nor too small, but just comfortable.

Caterina Murino

I love all the shoe shops in Covent Garden. Laura Lee Jewellery on Monmouth Street for delicate gold jewellery. Every time I get a part in an English movie, I buy myself a piece of jewellery from there.

Franz Schubert

Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.

George Herbert

Feare keepes the garden better then the gardiner.

Christina Rossetti

The city mouse lives in a house, The garden mouse lives in a bower

Christian Wiman

Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.

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.

George Berkeley

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 Bernard Shaw

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

Freeman Dyson

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

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.]

Jasper Fforde

I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.

I didn't realize they were as destructive in the garden as they are.

Jack Kerouac

And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact it was Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are full of "happy nuts." (p. 200)

No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.

John Hurt

I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding.

Detroit's not a garden place in any way, shape or form. No laying by the pool or playing golf.

This guide is a great quick-reference resource for home gardeners and provides a lot of information on weeds in a relatively space.

This garden has been a labor of love for my mom and the rest of our family,

You want it to look like you went out into the garden and picked them yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.

Eve Best

I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.

If you can imagine encountering George Washington on the grounds, it would be in the Botanical Garden on his knees with his hands in the dirt. He tried many new plants in this small space and recorded things in detail. But not everything he grew here was new and experimental. He grew sugar beets, grasses, peppers, oaks, pecans, Lombardy poplars and chinaberry.

Greg Peterson

No matter where you are you can grow something to eat. Shift your thinking and you'd be surprised at the places your food can be grown! Window sill, fire escape and rooftop gardens have the same potential to provide impressive harvests as backyard gardens, greenhouses and community spaces.

George Herbert

The market is the best garden.

George Herbert

A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.

James Ellis

Literature is the garden of wisdom.

Milton Friedman

The Fed was largely responsible for converting what might have been a garden-variety recession, although perhaps a fairly severe one, into a major catastrophe. Instead of using its powers to offset the depression, it presided over a decline in the quantity of money by one-third from 1929 to 1933 ... Far from the depression being a failure of the free-enterprise system, it was a tragic failure of government.

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.

Ken Wilber

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.