Famous Quotes & Sayings

This garden has been a labor of love for my mom and the rest of our family,

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.

Henry David Thoreau

Perfect alchemists I keep who can transmute substances without end, and thus the corner of my garden is an inexhaustible treasure-chest. Here you can dig, not gold, but the value which gold merely represents; and there is no Signor Blitz about it.

In this light, my spirit saw through all things and into all creatures and I recognized God in grass and plants.

Jamaica Kincaid

In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture-it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.

Jamaica Kincaid

The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Dear me! We Tooks and Brandybucks, we can't live long on the heights.' 'No,' said Merry. 'I can't. Not yet, at any rate. But at least, Pippin, we can now see them, and honour them. It is best to love first what you are fitted to love, I suppose: you must start somewhere and have some roots, and the soil of the Shire is deep. Still there are things deeper and higher; and not a gaffer could tend his garden in what he calls peace but for them, whether he knows about them or not.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I am in fact a hobbit (in all but size). I like gardens, trees and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated).

Iyanla Vanzant

Our minds work like a garden. It is fertile ground that accepts any and everything we plant. Good or evil, constructive or destructive, our lives will bear the fruit of the seeds we plant in our minds.

Elton John

Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden?

Ian Hamilton Finlay

My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks.

Jeff Cox

A person who loves his or her work Is like a plant in the right spot: There growth is maximized And the yield is greatest.

Jean Giraudoux

Is a park any better than a coal mine? What's a mountain got that a slag pile hasn't? What would you rather have in your garden--an almond tree or an oil well?

Jacqueline Bisset

I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.

George Harrison

Sometimes I feel like I’m actually on the wrong planet. It’s great when I’m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, ‘What the hell am I doing here?

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.

Franz Schubert

Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.

George Herbert

Feare keepes the garden better then the gardiner.

Christina Rossetti

The city mouse lives in a house, The garden mouse lives in a bower

Christian Wiman

Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.

George W. Bush

I think it was in the Rose Garden where I issued this brilliant statement: If I had a magic wand -- but the president doesn't have a magic wand. You just can't say, 'low gas.'

Jewel

It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you'll water your career or your relationship more.