Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diane Ackerman

Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives.

Diane Ackerman

[On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit. ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if you cultivate delight.

Demi Lovato

I want to get to the point where one day I don't have to have anything but a rug and a microphone stand on stage and still be able to sell out places like Madison Square Garden, like Bruce Springsteen does.

Cory Doctorow

Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the perfection of the Garden. Therefore, no rabbi is allowed to overturn any of his forebears' wisdom, since they are all, by definition, smarter than him.

David Attenborough

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

Robert Frost

We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure.

Thomas Jefferson

I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. Such a variety of subjects, some one always coming to perfection, the failure of one thing repaired by the success of another, and instead of one harvest a continued one through the year.

Tom Turner

Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.

Tom Turner

Many of the world's best-designed cities have been inspired by garden concepts.

Russell Page

My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups of plants.

Russell Page

Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings.

Russell Page

There are few gardens that can be left alone. A few years of neglect and only the skeleton of a garden can be traced. . . . Japanese artists working with a few stones and sand four hundred years ago achieved strangely lasting compositions. However there, too, but for the hands that have piously raked the white sand into patterns and controlled the spread of moss and lichens, little would remain.

Tim Vine

People think that because of my act that I must have a really busy mind and I must be driven. I really am not. I quite like going outside and looking at spiders on a hedge in my garden and stuff.

Victor Hugo

Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he

Vicente Fox

Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.

Stephen Covey

The only thing that endures over time is the 'Law of the Farm.' You must prepare the ground, plant the seed, cultivate, and water if you expect to reap the harvest.

Vanessa Paradis

I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of barbecues, a garden, friends.

Susannah York

Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London - 21 Blenkarne Road - with an incredible garden, so I went and had a look. I walked in and just said, 'I want it.'

Taylor Swift

When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.

Stanley Kunitz

I associate the garden with the whole experience of being alive, and so, there is nothing in the range of human experience that is separate from what the garden can signify in its eagerness and its insistence, and in its driving energy to live -- to grow, to bear fruit.

Stacey King

Marriage is a garden that I'm constantly growing in.

Rumi

If you can't smell the fragrance don't come into the garden of Love. if you are unwilling to undress don't enter into the stream of Truth. Stay where you are, don't come our way

Rumi

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. RUMI, attributed, Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Rumi

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

Rumi

I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

Rumi

Where, with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?

Rumi

Beauty is the garden scent of roses, murmuring water flowing gently...Can words describe the indescribable?

Rumi

In the garden I see only your face From trees and blossoms I inhale only your fragrance.

Michael Pollan

Nature abhors a garden.

Michael Fish

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.

Maurice Gibb

Elton wanted a garden. They were building all afternoon while we were rehearsing. And then they built a fountain for Elton. And he said, I was only joking!

Mario Batali

Protein has been intensely over-represented on the plate. Now, the garden should be the main drag for main courses.

More grows in the garden than the gardener knows he has sown.