Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lurlis Simmons

We're in the process of rebuilding the garden and refurbishing everything in it.

Virginia Woolf

She tapped on the window with her embossed hairbrush. They were too far off to hear. The drone of the trees was in their ears; the chirp of birds; other incidents of garden life, inaudible, invisible to her in the bedroom, absorbed them. Isolated on a green island, hedged about with snowdrops, laid with a counterpane of puckered silk, the innocent island floated under her window. Only George lagged behind.

William Blake

And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')

Wallace Stegner

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.

Samuel Beckett

Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage that in the end he remembers the exact spot in the garden and the kind of life he led there before joining the family circle.

Rudy Rucker

When I see an old movie, like from the ’40s or ’50s or ’60s, the people look so calm. They don’t have smartphones, they’re not looking at computer screens, they’re taking their time. They’ll sit in a chair and just stare off into space. I think some day we’ll find our way back to that garden of Eden.

W. S. Merwin

In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of water, the origin and guide of its contours and gradients and of all the lives - the plants and small creatures, and the culture - that evolved here. That was always here to be seen, of course, and the recognition has forced itself, in one form or other, upon people in every part of the world who have been directly involved with the growing of living things. The gardener who ignores it is soon left with no garden.

W. S. Merwin

Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its composition, it’s appearance, to human design and effort, human conventions and convenience, and the human pursuit of that elusive, indefinable harmony that we call beauty. It has a life of its own, an intricate, willful, secret life, as any gardener knows. It is only the humans in it who think of it as a garden. But a garden is a relationship, which is one of the countless reasons why it is never finished.

William Cowper

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

Tom Spencer

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

Renee Shepherd

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.

Cassandra Clare

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

Hilarie Burton

Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails.

David Gower

I started gardening with my grandmother when I was 6,

Clive Anderson

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

David Attenborough

Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?

Vanna Bonta

We are the ancestors of those gardening the universe.

Gates McFadden

I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.