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Famous Gardens Quotes

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot β€” Dixie Lee Ray

A garden is a friend you can visit any time. β€” Okakura Kakuzo

A garden is a grand teacher... above all it teaches entire trust. β€” Gertrude Jekyll

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

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

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

The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye. β€” Rudyard Kipling

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

Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves. β€” H. E. Bates

A garden is never so good as it will be next year. β€” Thomas Cooper

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. β€” Alfred Austin

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

All gardening is landscape painting. β€” William Kent

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them. β€” Liberty Hyde Bailey

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

Short Gardens Quotes

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

Gardens Image Quotes

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

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. β€” Audrey Hepburn

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

Do not spread the compost on the weeds. β€” 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. β€” 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. β€” 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. β€” Marianne Moore

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

Silence is the garden of thought. β€” 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. β€” 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.

Beautiful Garden Quotes

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. β€” Mahatma Gandhi

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

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. β€” John Muir

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.

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. β€” Wallace Stegner

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

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... β€” Duncan Trussell

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

In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. β€” Okakura Kakuzo

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. β€” Kabir

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. β€” Carl Sandburg

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

Gardening Quotes

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. β€” 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. β€” Alan Watts

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

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.

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. β€” 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. β€” Oscar Wilde

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. β€” Nachman of Breslov

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.

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

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. β€” Julian of Norwich

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. β€” 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. β€” Katherine Dunham

Garden Design Quotes

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. β€” James Whistler

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

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

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

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. β€” Luis Barragan

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

Poet: gardener of epitaphs. β€” Octavio Paz

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.

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. β€” 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. β€” 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. β€” Joshua Reynolds

A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb. β€” Joseph Beach

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. β€” Grace Lee Boggs

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. β€” Rumi

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". β€” John Muir

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

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. β€” Dale Carnegie

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. β€” Alice Hoffman

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

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

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

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

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

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

Flower Garden Quotes

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. β€” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nationalism cannot flower if it does not grow in the garden of internationalism. β€” Sukarno

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. β€” Henry Ward Beecher

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

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. β€” Percy Bysshe Shelley

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. β€” Billy Graham

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

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. β€” 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. β€” 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. β€” Oscar Wilde

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. β€” Carlos Santana

Garden Love Quotes

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. β€” 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. β€” 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. β€” Zeno of Elea

The summer night is like a perfection of thought. β€” Wallace Stevens

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. β€” Rumi

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. β€” Gertrude Jekyll

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

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. β€” Gertrude Jekyll

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. β€” Francisco Costa

Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay. β€” George Meredith

Somewhere the sense makes copper roses steel roses β€” The rose carried weight of love but love is at an end β€” of roses It is at the edge of the petal that love waits. β€” William Carlos Williams

Spring Garden Quotes

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. β€” 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. β€” 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. β€” H. Peter Loewer

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? β€” Edward Giobbi

Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil. β€” Reginald Heber

That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ. And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it. β€” 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. β€” Elizabeth von Arnim

All things seem possible in May. β€” Edwin Way Teale

A change of season calls for a change of scent that is both energizing and refreshing. β€” Hannah Bronfman

The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy. β€” Emily Dickinson

Summer Garden Quotes

If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer. β€” Saint John Chrysostom

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds. β€” Robert Bridges

I'm a regular Canadian girl. I enjoy staying home. In the summer I've got a garden. I'm very much a homebody, a normal, family-oriented girl. But I do have this other incredible side of my life that involves acting and traveling. β€” Elisha Cuthbert

A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week. β€” Henry Ward Beecher

It will not always be summer: build barns. β€” Hesiod

There is no real need for decorations when throwing a barbecue party - let the summer garden, in all its vibrant and luscious splendour, speak for itself. β€” Pippa Middleton

In the other gardens And all up the vale, From the autumn bonfies See the smoke trail! Pleasant summer over And all the summer flowers, The red fire blazes, the grey smoke towers. Sing a song of seasons! Something bright in all, Flowers in the summer Fires in the fall! β€” Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

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

Inspirational Gardening Quotes

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

If a tree dies, plant another in its place. β€” Carl Linnaeus

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order. β€” Susan L. Taylor

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen β€” Rod McKuen

A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. β€” Leonard Nimoy

I am poor, but I am rich. I have my children, I have a garden with roses, and I have my faith and the memories of those who have gone before me. What more is there? β€” Pam MuΓ±oz Ryan

The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path. β€” Larry Dossey

To be able to walk out the door when you come home from a job and wander into the garden to do a bit of watering gives you time to be creative in your mind. β€” Mary Berry

And that’s the point β€” why we’re here planting trees. It takes a long time to grow these systems and build these systems up. β€” Charles Hoskinson

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

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. β€” Thomas Dreier

Rose Garden Quotes

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

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. β€” Leo Buscaglia

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold. β€” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The movements of some more little red birds in the garden, like animated rosebuds, appeared unbearably jittery and thievish. It was as though the creatures were attached by sensitive wires to his nerves. β€” Malcolm Lowry

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

If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden; and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire. β€” Rumi

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

The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose. β€” Kenneth Hare

Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden! β€” Toots Thielemans

In the garden of thy heart, plant naught but the rose of love. β€” BahΓ‘'u'llΓ‘h

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. β€” Dale Carnegie

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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. β€” 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! β€” 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! β€” 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. β€” 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. β€” Hammurabi

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