Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

Zach Braff

When you're the director and the writer, you never have to remember your lines, and there's no one to call you on it. On Garden State I did different lines on every take, just making crap up. And it was great each time.

Zac Posen

I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.

Voltaire

I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

William Butler Yeats

Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I like fireworks too, but I set them off in gardens or kebab stands. I never set fire to my own house.

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.

Moon Unit Zappa

I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden.

Louise Hay

Your thoughts are like the seeds you plant in your garden. Your beliefs are like the soil in which you plant these seeds.

Henry Beard

Garden: One of a vast number of free outdoor restaurants operated by charity-minded amateurs in an effort to provide healthful, balanced meals for insects, birds and animals.

Henry Beard

The true definition of a perennial: Any plant which, had it lived, would have bloomed year after year.

Helen Humphreys

What I've always found interesting in gardens is looking at what people choose to plant there. What they put in. What they leave out. One small choice and then another, and soon there is a mood, an atmosphere, a series of limitations, a world.

Henry Beston

If gardeners will forget a little the phrase, "watering the plants" and think of watering as a matter of "watering the earth" under the plants, keeping up its moisture content and gauging its need, the garden will get on very well.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

Henry David Thoreau

Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

Malcolm Wallop

If government ownership of land and natural resources was the best way to protect the environment, then we should have found a Garden of Eden in the Soviet Union after the Iron Curtain came down. Instead, there was one environmental horror story after another.

James Hunter

As leaders we do not create growth. The best we can do is create an environment that is conducive to growth. It is like planting a garden. You do not cause the seeds to grow. To grow is their natural purpose in life.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

A garden is half made when it is well planned.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

One must first seek to love plants and nature, and then to cultivate that happy peace of mind which is satisfied with little. He will be happier if he has no rigid and arbitrary ideals, for gardens are coquettish, particularly with the novice.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Tools of many kinds and well chosen, are one of the joys of a garden.

Libba Bray

I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.

Friedrich Engels

Competition permits the capitalist to deduct from the price of labour power that which the family earns from its own little garden or field; the workers are compelled to accept any piece wages offered to them, because otherwise they would get nothing at all, and they could not live from the products of their small-scale agriculture alone, and because, on the other hand, it is just this agriculture and landownership which chains them to the spot and prevents them from looking around for other employment.

Jon Gries

If we descended from space aliens, that's just as viable as Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, as far as I'm concerned.

Luis Barragan

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy

Lupe Fiasco

I hope that God forgive us, all of us sinners turn us back into beginners, put us up where the winners go, Holy apartments in the gardens in which the rivers flow, thank you for all your blessings and all of your miracles.

The garden has been set out to the original layout.

My garden will never make me famous, I'm a horticultural ignoramus.

Oscar de la Renta

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

Orson Welles

One should make movies innocently - the way Adam and Eve named the animals, their first day in the garden...Learn from your own interior vision of things, as if there had never been a D.W.Griffith, or a Eisenstein, or a [John] Ford, or a [Jean] Renoir, or anybody.

Orison Swett Marden

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.