Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jasper Johns

Object in/ and space - the first impulse may be to give the object - a position - to place the object. (The object had a position to begin with.) Next - to change the position of the object. - Rauschenberg's early sculptures - A board with some rocks on it. The rocks can be anywhere on the board. - Cage's Japanese rock garden - The rocks can be anywhere (within the garden)...

Jasper Fforde

I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.

Gertrude Jekyll

The possession of a quantity of plants, however good the plants may be themselves and however ample their number, does not make a garden; it only makes a collection. Having got the plants, the great thing is to use them with careful selection and definite intention.

Gertrude Jekyll

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

Gertrude Jekyll

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

In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.

Gertrude Jekyll

I do not envy the owners of very large gardens. The garden should fit its owner or his or her tastes, just as one's clothes do; it should be neither too large nor too small, but just comfortable.

Harold MacMillan

It is, of course, a trite observation to say that we live "in a period of transition." Many people have said this at many times. Adam may well have made the remark to Eve on leaving the Garden of Eden.

I didn't realize they were as destructive in the garden as they are.

Jack Kerouac

And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact it was Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are full of "happy nuts." (p. 200)

I said about any garden store you want to go to,

Bryn Terfel

I remember when I rang the Opera House in Covent Garden to say, 'I'm having terrible back problems,' ... They tried everything to help get me there. They said, 'You can sing from a chair.' But the thing was, I couldn't even sit.

My mother was out there with a garden hose. She lives in Arlington, near the Mansfield border. She's OK, but it's representative of what's been going on all afternoon.

William Davis

My walls outside must have some flowers,My walls within must have some books;A house that's small; a garden large,And in it leafy nooks.

William Davies

My walls outside must have some flowers, My walls within must have some books; A house that's small; a garden large, And in it leafy nooks.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens.

B. B. King

We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.

Bill Shankly

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.

Cecelia Ahern

It's like my garden, love. Everything grows. Including love. And with that growing everyday how can you expect missing her to ever fade away? Everything builds, including our ability to cope with it. That's how we keep going.

Bertrand Russell

I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when they found he was planting trees in his garden.

George Herbert

The market is the best garden.

George Herbert

A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.

James Ellis

Literature is the garden of wisdom.

Erin Morgenstern

I have you here, all around me. I sit in the Ice Garden to get a hint of this, this way that you make me feel. I felt it even before I knew who you were, and every time I think it could not possibly get any stronger, it does.

Jason Hill

In a rock garden we foster a little patch of the wilderness that stands to us for freedom.

Germaine Greer

A garden is the best alternative therapy.

Herbert V. Prochnow

Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel.

Henry David Thoreau

The order of things should be reversed; the seventh day should be the day of toil...and the other six his Sabbath of the affections and the soul, in which to range this widerspread garden, and drink in the soft influences and sublime revelations of Nature...

Henry David Thoreau

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.

Henry David Thoreau

When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall? Even some sects of philosophers have felt the necessity of importing the woods to themselves, since they did not go to the woods. They planted groves and walks of Plantanes, where they took subdiales ambulationes in porticos open to the air. Of course, it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither.

Henry David Thoreau

I was determined to know beans.

Henry David Thoreau

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

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.