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Famous Gardens Quotes

A late summer garden has a tranquility found no other time of the year. — William F. Longgood

The dance grew into a colorful flower bouquet which caught and contained the glow of sun-happy summer days, the secret of star-studded nights, and the wistful sweetness of overcast and rainy hours. — Mary Wigman

Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor. — Derek Walcott

A garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature. — Jeff Cox

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade. — Rudyard Kipling

Hot July brings cooling showers,
Apricots and gillyflowers. - Sara Coleridge

Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots and gillyflowers. — Sara Coleridge

A garden is a friend you can visit any time. — Okakura Kakuzo

One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. — W. E. Johns

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. — Walt Whitman

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. — Mark Twain

The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh. — Rumi

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Spring is the time of plans and projects. — Leo Tolstoy

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods. — Georg Brandes

In a garden you can find, quiet thoughts that calm the mind. — Patience Strong

Short Gardens Quotes

  • If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes! — Albert Hofmann
  • Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils. — William Wordsworth
  • Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are. — Unknown Author
  • Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks. — Charlemagne
  • Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners. — William Shakespeare
  • If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. — Abraham Lincoln
  • Where flowers bloom so does hope. — Lady Bird Johnson
  • In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness. — Chogyam Trungpa

Gardens Image Quotes

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. - Leo Buscaglia quote

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. — Leo Buscaglia

If a tree dies, plant another in its place. - Carl Linnaeus quote

If a tree dies, plant another in its place. — Carl Linnaeus

Do not spread the compost on the weeds. - William Shakespeare quote

Do not spread the compost on the weeds. — William Shakespeare

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden. - Frances Hodgson Burnett quote

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

The sense of impending disaster hung over the garden like a chandelier. - Antal Szerb quote

The sense of impending disaster hung over the garden like a chandelier. — Antal Szerb

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. - Marianne Moore quote

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. — Marianne Moore

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. - Gertrude Jekyll quote

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. — Gertrude Jekyll

Silence is the garden of thought. - Ali ibn Abi Talib quote

Silence is the garden of thought. — Ali ibn Abi Talib

Every breath is a giveaway dance between you and the plants. - Susun Weed quote

Every breath is a giveaway dance between you and the plants. — Susun Weed

Gardens quote So plant your own gardens and decorate your soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers
So plant your own gardens and decorate your soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

End Of Summer Garden Quotes

The summer night is like a perfection of thought. — Wallace Stevens

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year. It brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul. — Billy Graham

It will not always be summer: build barns. — Hesiod

Gardens quote Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our sou
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing and mojito in your hand. — Bar Refaeli

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. — Bernard Williams

Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne. — Bryan Procter

Gardens quote We enjoy life's garden. Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
We enjoy life's garden. Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them. And by the end of the summer, if they go on growing, we shall have to go out in pairs together for protection. — Nan Fairbrother

Spring Garden Quotes

Be a Gardener. Dig a ditch. Toil and sweat. And turn the earth upside down. And seek the deepness. And water plants in time. Continue this labor. And make sweet floods to run, and noble and abundant fruits to spring. Take this food and drink, and carry it to God as your true worship. — Julian of Norwich

A garden is a grand teacher... above all it teaches entire trust. — Gertrude Jekyll

And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. - Anne Bradstreet

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. — Anne Bradstreet

Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds. — Carl Linnaeus

May and June. Soft syllables, gentle names for the two best months in the garden year: cool, misty mornings gently burned away with a warming spring sun, followed by breezy afternoons and chilly nights. The discussion of philosophy is over; it's time for work to begin. — H. Peter Loewer

Gardens quote If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

I think that no matter how old or infirm I may become, I will always plant a large garden in the spring. Who can resist the feelings of hope and joy that one gets from participating in nature's rebirth? — Edward Giobbi

Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil. — Reginald Heber

That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ. And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it. — Winifred Mary Letts

She belongs to the winter that is past, to the darkness that is over, and has no part or lot in the life I shall lead for the next six months. Oh, I could dance and sing for joy that the spring is here! What a ressurection of beauty there is in my garden, and of brightest hope in my heart. — Elizabeth von Arnim

Gardening Quotes

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. — Marcel Proust

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. — Alan Watts

For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect. — Mahatma Gandhi

Gardens quote To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.
To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. — Jorge Luis Borges

When at last I took the time to look into the heart of a flower, it opened up a whole new world; a world where every country walk would be an adventure, where every garden would become an enchanted one. — Grace Kelly

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. — Oscar Wilde

Gardens quote Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Grant me the ability to be alone, May it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grasses among all growing things and there may I be alone, and enter into prayer to talk with the one that I belong to. — Nachman of Breslov

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there? — Jack Kornfield

Cultivate peace first in the garden of your heart by removing the weeds of lust, hatred, greed, selfishness, and jealousy. Then only you can manifest it externally. Then only, those who come in contact with you, will be benefited by your vibrations of peace and harmony. — Sivananda

A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on. — Katherine Dunham

Summer Sun Quotes

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But Lust's effect is tempest after sun; Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain, Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done; Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies. — William Shakespeare

Here's flowers for you; Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun And with him rises weeping: these are flowers Of middle summer, and I think they are given To men of middle age. — William Shakespeare

In summer winter rain or sun, it's good to be on horseback. - Mike Oldfield

In summer winter rain or sun, it's good to be on horseback. — Mike Oldfield

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair. - Susan Polis Schutz

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair. — Susan Polis Schutz

Digital Chocolate has 60% of its developers in Finland where the sun never sets in the summer and there is nothing to do outside in the winter, so we are very productive! — Trip Hawkins

[On Venice:] Every hour of the day is a miracle of light. In summer with daybreak the rising sun produces such a tender magic on the water that it nearly breaks one's heart. — Peggy Guggenheim

Gardens quote We must cultivate our own garden.
We must cultivate our own garden.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. — Charles Dickens

Bright was the summer's noon when quickening steps Followed each other till a dreary moor Was crossed, a bare ridge clomb, upon whose top Standing alone, as from a rampart's edge, I overlooked the bed of Windermere, Like a vast river, stretching in the sun. — William Wordsworth

Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man, as snow before the summer sun. — Tecumseh

Walk tall as the trees, live strong as the mountains, be gentle as the spring winds, keep the warmth of the summer sun in your heart, and the great spirit will always be with you. — American Indian Proverbs

Garden Love Quotes

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom. — Rumi

There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can. — Alice Hoffman

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment. — Georgia O'Keeffe

Gardens quote If there is no gardener, there is no garden.
If there is no gardener, there is no garden.

My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats. — Juliet Mills

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing. — Jim Rohn

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. - Zeno of Elea

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. — Zeno of Elea

Gardens quote Growing you own food is like printing your own money!
Growing you own food is like printing your own money!

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them. — Henry Ward Beecher

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. — Oscar Wilde

In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. - Okakura Kakuzo

In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. — Okakura Kakuzo

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

Flower Garden Quotes

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. — George Balanchine

Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nationalism cannot flower if it does not grow in the garden of internationalism. — Sukarno

Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers. — Lady Bird Johnson

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in a garden filled with thousands of the same yellow flower, BUT they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple. — Suzy Kassem

A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses. — Oscar Wilde

Do not go to the garden of flowers! O friend! go not there; In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the infinite beauty. — Kabir

Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful. — Jim Carrey

When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden. — Carlos Santana

Beautiful Garden Quotes

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. — John Muir

You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time. — Wallace Stegner

And all this time when you could have been romping around the f*cking Garden of Eden f*cking hot girls and eating steaks and living a beautiful life you were worried about... — Duncan Trussell

Under the harvest moon, When the soft silver Drips shimmering Over the garden nights, Death, the gray mocker, Comes and whispers to you As a beautiful friend Who remembers. — Carl Sandburg

Milan, for me, is a city of discovery. You can find some amazing gardens behind some great houses; I also love finding beautiful galleries and incredible shops, but you have to explore. And the food is amazing. — Francisco Costa

For the sake of a single rose, the gardener becomes servant to a thousand thorns. — Moroccan Proverbs

Having a purpose and knowing exactly what your values are will add additional years to your life. You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling. — Dan Buettner

In order to comprehend the beauty of a Japanese garden, it is necessary to understand - or at least to learn to understand - the beauty of stone. — Lafcadio Hearn

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration. — Claude Monet

This body is yours. No one can ever take it from you, if only you will accept yourself, claim it again--your arms, your spine, your ribs, the small of your back. It's all yours. All this bounty, all this beauty, all this strength and grace is yours. This garden is yours. Take it back. Take it back. — Jean Hegland

Great Garden Quotes

Perhaps you have noticed that even in the very lightest breeze you can hear the voice of the cottonwood tree; this we understand is its prayer to the Great Spirit, for not only men, but all things and all beings pray to Him continually in differing ways. — Black Elk

Life on a small farm might seem primitive, but by living such a life we become able to discover the Great Path. I believe that one who deeply respects his neighborhood and everyday world in which he lives will be shown the greatest of all worlds. — Masanobu Fukuoka

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. — Abraham Lincoln

The honey-bee's great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower that blooms. She is more than provident. Enough will not satisfy her, she must have all she can get by hook or crook. — John Burroughs

The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are. — Thomas Dreier

The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in one hand and a cold drink in the other, tell somebody else where to dig. — Texas Bix Bender

The great Master Gardener, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in a wonderful providence, with his own hand, planted me here, where by his grace, in this part of his vineyard, I grow; and here I will abide till the great Master of the vineyard think fit to transplant me. — Samuel Rutherford

Make great account of your precious trials, both interior and exterior; it is thus that the garden of Jesus is adorned with flowers, that is, with acts of virtue. — Paul of the Cross

There is a great power within that when used in beauty and immaculate purity can cure and heal and cause miracles. When you use it it spreads like a magic garden and when you do not use it it recedes from you. — Lord Buckley

I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden, and her message. I took my daughter and granddaughter there, and they were really charming, it was great. — Jacques Pepin

Garden Design Quotes

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. — James Whistler

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

I believe that architects should design gardens to be used, as much as the houses they build, to develop a sense of beauty and the taste and inclination toward the fine arts and other spiritual values. — Luis Barragan

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

Poet: gardener of epitaphs. — Octavio Paz

Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream. — Christopher Alexander

There is no "End" to be written, neither can you, like an architect, engrave in stone the day the garden was finished. A painter can frame his picture, a composer can notate his coda, but a garden is always on the move. — Mirabel Osler

Gardening as far as Gardening is Art, or entitled to that appellation, is a deviation from nature; for if the true taste consists, as many hold, in banishing every appearance of Art, or any traces of the footsteps of man, it would then be no longer a Garden. — Joshua Reynolds

A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb. — Joseph Beach

But evil has been around since the Garden of Eden, and God's plan for victory was designed before the world began. The Bible tells us to fear no evil. — David Jeremiah

Garden Quotes

We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors. That is how change takes place in living systems, not from above but from within, from many local actions occurring simultaneously. — Grace Lee Boggs

As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can". — John Muir

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. — Dale Carnegie

There is a garden in her eyes, where roses and white lilies flow. — Thomas Campion

Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives. — Thomas Berry

I only debate with serious political youth formations. Not a group of the racist Helen Zille's garden boys. — Julius Malema

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree. — English Proverbs

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. — Gertrude Jekyll

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. - Audrey Hepburn

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. — Audrey Hepburn

My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws. — Claude Monet

Vegetable Garden Quotes

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables. — Gertrude Stein

I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water. — Joan Miro

Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution that we used to be. — E. B. White

Centenarians are still living near their children and feel loved and the expectation to love. Instead of being mere recipients of care, they are contributors to the lives of their families. They grow gardens to contribute vegetables, they continue to cook and clean. — Dan Buettner

The trouble is, you cannot grow just one zucchini. Minutes after you plant a single seed, hundreds of zucchini will barge out of the ground and sprawl around the garden, menacing the other vegetables. At night, you will be able to hear the ground quake as more and more zucchinis erupt. — Dave Barry

Just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers, so must you attend to nourish the garden of your becoming. — Jean Houston

In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it. — Kin Hubbard

This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal.... We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight that a cabbage patch or even an elegant vegetable garden cannot provoke. — Jane Grigson

Cares melt when you kneel in your garden. — Okakura Kakuzo

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. — Ambrose Bierce

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More Gardens Quotes

The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter. — Bill Mollison

Are you ready to cut off your head and place your foot on it? If so, come; Love awaits you! Love is not grown in a garden, nor sold in the marketplace; whether you are a king or a servant, the price is your head, and nothing less. Yes, the cost of the elixir of love is your head! Do you hesitate? 0 miser, It is cheap at that price! — Abu Hamid AlGhazzali

Are you ready to cut off your head and place your foot on it? If so, come; Love awaits you! Love is not grown in a garden, nor sold in the marketplace; whether you are a king or a servant, the price is your head, and nothing less. Yes, the cost of the elixir of love is your head! Do you hesitate? 0 miser, It is cheap at that price! — Al-Ghazali

The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back. In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight. When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us. — Ram Dass

If he does not plant the field that was given over to him as a garden, if it be arable land, the gardener shall pay the owner the produce of the field for the years that he let it lie fallow, according to the product of neighboring fields, put the field in arable condition and return it to its owner. — Hammurabi

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