Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Covey

Where there's no gardener, there's no garden.

Stephen Covey

If there is no gardener there is no garden.

Steven Chu

For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision" measurement of gravity. The years of experience building things taught me skills that were directly applicable to the construction of the pendulum. Twenty-five years later, I was to develop a refined version of this measurement using laser-cooled atoms in an atomic fountain interferometer.

Susan Hill

The more contemplative gardener, seeing the garden as a whole, the design of it, and its nature as a still place of delight and refreshment, will wait and hope for the moment when it seems to achieve perfection. Awareness of when such moments are most likely helps to make them happen; they will not be entirely accidental but anticipated; everything will be planned to encourage them.

Michael Horton

God's church is not a stage for us to perform on but a garden for us to grow in.

Michelle Obama

Gardening has increased, community gardens have increased significantly. There are 50 percent more community gardens right here in Washington DC.

Michael Pollan

Ripe vegetables were magic to me. Unharvested, the garden bristled with possibility. I would quicken at the sight of a ripe tomato, sounding its redness from deep amidst the undifferentiated green. To lift a bean plant's hood of heartshaped leaves and discover a clutch of long slender pods handing underneath could make me catch my breath.

Michael Pollan

A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.

Michael Pollan

Nature abhors a garden.

Michael Pollan

Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.

Michael Pollan

It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.

Michael Pollan

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.

Sherman Alexie

A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.

Seth Gabel

The way that people are watching TV is changing. The landscape of television is changing. Movies are becoming much more insular. They're like a walled garden, where you know what you're going to see and you expect it. But in the world of TV, because it's episodic, you can explore any area because you have time to do that. You can take risks on the kinds of storytelling that you're doing.

Seth Godin

Great projects, like great careers and relationships that last, are gardens. They are tended, they shift, they grow. They endure over time, gaining a personality and reflecting their environment. When something dies or fades away, we prune, replant and grow again.

John Milton

And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure.

John Milton

Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.

Mike Tyson

I can sell out Madison Square Garden masturbating

Neil Gaiman

Walk any path in Destiny's garden, and you will be forced to choose, not once but many times.

John Muir

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings.

John Muir

Government protection should be thrown around every wild grove and forest on the mountains, as it is around every private orchard, and the trees in public parks. To say nothing of their value as fountains of timber, they are worth infinitely more than all the gardens and parks of towns.

John Muir

One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.

John Steinbeck

Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.

Marie Curie

More and more, I feel the need for a house and a garden.

Theodore Roosevelt

To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees.

Margaret Drabble

I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest. I'll be all right; I've got a few veg.

Margaret Fuller

The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's bloom, or it's garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs.

Kin Hubbard

In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it.

Michael Fish

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

Michael Palin

Somewhere, a long way away, people are doing sensible things like mowing lawns and digging gardens.

May Sarton

True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.

May Sarton

In the garden the door is always open into the holy.

May Sarton

Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.