In a garden you can find, quiet thoughts that calm the mind. — Patience Strong
A garden is a friend you can visit any time. — Okakura Kakuzo
Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. — Rumi
Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot — Dixie Lee Ray
One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. — W. E. Johns
Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves. — H. E. Bates
A garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature. — Jeff Cox
The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye. — Rudyard Kipling
A garden is a grand teacher... above all it teaches entire trust. — Gertrude Jekyll
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. — Walt Whitman
There is a garden in her eyes, where roses and white lilies flow. — Thomas Campion
A late summer garden has a tranquility found no other time of the year. — William F. Longgood
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
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. — Alfred Austin
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade. — Rudyard Kipling
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
Every breath is a giveaway dance between you and the plants. — Susun Weed
So plant your own gardens and decorate your soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
My Beautiful Garden Quotes
The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration. — Claude Monet
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
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece — Claude Monet
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden. — Doris Day
I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.' — Jim Carrey
We enjoy life's garden. Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Perez Hilton is an irritating wasp in the beautiful rose garden that is my life. — Lily Allen
I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day. — Robert Breault
My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society. — Andrew Weil
My untidy habits drive me to follow the slash-and-burn principle. Work on a virgin table until the mess becomes unbearable, then move on to a clean table in a clean room - or, on a beautiful summer day like this, one of the five tables dotted around the garden. Trash that table and move on again. — Richard Dawkins
Beautiful Flower 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. — Mahatma Gandhi
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. — George Balanchine
Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers. — Lady Bird Johnson
In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. — 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. — 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
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
The virtuous woman must be treated like a relic - adored, but not handled; she should be guarded and prized, like a fine flower-garden, the beauty and fragrance of which the owner allows others to enjoy only at a distance, and through iron walls. — Miguel de Cervantes
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden. — Buddha
You have to appreciate every single day that you're alive. Life is a little bit like a garden - you have to find time to plant the seeds for beautiful flowers to grow. — Oscar de la Renta
Great Garden Quotes
The summer night is like a perfection of thought. — Wallace Stevens
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
To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.
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
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
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
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
Flower Garden Quotes
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
We must cultivate our own garden.
If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment. — Georgia O'Keeffe
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
If there is no gardener, there is no garden.
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
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
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
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. — Oscar Wilde
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
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
Growing you own food is like printing your own money!
The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there? — 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. — 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. — 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
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
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
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
Garden Love Quotes
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
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 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
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
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. — Gertrude Jekyll
Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay. — George Meredith
Somewhere the sense makes copper roses steel roses — The rose carried weight of love but love is at an end — of roses It is at the edge of the petal that love waits. — William Carlos Williams
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
Garden Quotes
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
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
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
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. — Leo Buscaglia
Peace begins in the kitchens and pantries, gardens and backyards, where our food is grown and prepared. The energies of nature and the infinite universe are absorbed through the foods we eat and are transmuted into our thoughts and actions. — Michio Kushi
If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer. — Saint John Chrysostom
Beautiful Flower Quotes
All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too. — Miranda Kerr
In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line. — Harriet Tubman
May the stars carry your sadness away, may the flowers fill your heart with beauty, may hope forever wipe away your tears. And, above all, may silence make you strong. — Chief Dan George
Daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty. — William Shakespeare
You're beautiful like a flower
More valuable than a diamond
You are powerful like a fire...
There is nothing in the world that you cannot do
When you believe in you, who are beautiful
Yeah you, who are brilliant
Yeah you, who are powerful
Yeah you, who are resilient — India.Arie
Look at an avalanche, and see that we are at our most powerful when we let go. Look at a flower, and see that we are at our most beautiful when we open up. — Shane Koyczan
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. — Georgia O'Keeffe
A lily of a day
Is fairer far in May,
Although it fall and die that night,
It was the plant and flower of light.
In small proportions we just beauties see,
And in short measures life may perfect be. — Ben Jonson
The red rose whispers of passion,
And the white rose breathes of love;
O, the red rose is a falcon,
And the white rose is a dove. — John Boyle O'Reilly
The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all. — Walt Disney
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
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
Spring Garden Quotes
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
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
I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds. — 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. — 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. — Henry Ward Beecher
It will not always be summer: build barns. — 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. — 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! — Robert Louis Stevenson
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
I've been a dweller on the plains, have sighed when summer days were gone; No more I'll sigh; for winter here Hath gladsome gardens of his own. — Dorothy Wordsworth
Beautiful Landscape Quotes
The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built. — Frank Lloyd Wright
The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me. — Zaha Hadid
God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild. — John Muir
My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear. — Gregory Crewdson
In Iceland, you can see the contours of the mountains wherever you go, and the swell of the hills, and always beyond that the horizon. And theres this strange thing: youre never sort of hidden; you always feel exposed in that landscape. But it makes it very beautiful as well. — Hannah Kent
I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast. — Edith Wharton
Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph. — Matt Hardy
A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. — Henry David Thoreau
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves. — Derek Walcott
What concerns me when I work, is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it's pastoral, or whether somebody will see a sunset in it. What concerns me is - did I make a beautiful picture? — Helen Frankenthaler
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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