Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howard Finster

My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.

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.]

It was tough. It was tough to do, obviously. Most of the people you worked with were Garden Way people.

To a gardener there is nothing more exasperating than a hose that just isn't long enough

David Gower

I started gardening with my grandmother when I was 6,

Hiroshi Sugimoto

It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, ... Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different.

That's part of why gardening is a joy and an art, and not a science. You don't always know what's going to happen.

It's really about spirituality. Gardening is a metaphor.

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.

James Ellis

Literature is the garden of wisdom.

Erin Morgenstern

I have you here, all around me. I sit in the Ice Garden to get a hint of this, this way that you make me feel. I felt it even before I knew who you were, and every time I think it could not possibly get any stronger, it does.

Jason Hill

In a rock garden we foster a little patch of the wilderness that stands to us for freedom.

Cassandra Clare

A forty-foot worm?" Will muttered to Jem as they moved through the Italian garden, their boots - thanks to a pair of Soundless runes - making no noise on the gravel. "Think of the size of the fish we could catch." Jem's lips twitched. "It's not funny, you know." "It is a bit.

Cassandra Clare

Th-there," she sobbed. "it dragged him to the Italian gardens. He managed to elude its maw at first, but it harried him through the paths. No matter how much I screamed, it would not put him d-down!" She burst into a fresh wave of tears. "You screamed," will said. "Is that all you did?" "I screamed a great deal,." Tatiana sounded injured. She drew fully away from Will and fixed him with a green gaze. "I see you are as ungenerous as you ever were.

Cassandra Clare

The destruction of all Shadowhunters' said Scott. 'I rather thought you knew that. It isn't a gardening club.

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.

Cassandra Clare

Other people have shrubbery in their gardens. You have a bottomless pit.

Murray Gell-Mann

Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behavior of the whole.

Kim Wilde

I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes.

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.

George Herbert

You may be on land, yet not in a garden.

George Herbert

The charges of building and making of gardens are unknowne.

George Herbert

Hee that is in a Taverne thinkes he is in a vine-garden.

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.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

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

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

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.