Quotes about garden

Alfred Austin -

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

Kedar Joshi -

The world is a garden of philosophy. God is its gardener Man is the visitor.And any tree that does not bear fruits of philosophy either does not belong tothat garden or is yet to be grown.

Lizzie Armitstead -

I remember taking my stabilisers off my bike with my dad in the back garden. It was a small little bike, and it was called Poppy, had balloons on it, and was purple.

Edwin Lutyens -

Every garden scheme should have a backbone, a central idea beautifully phrased. Every wall, path, stone and flower should have its relationship to the central idea.

Andre Rieu -

When I'm not on tour, I love to have a long breakfast at home in my garden.

Gilbert K. Chesterton -

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.

May Sarton -

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.

Maria Montessori -

If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.

Gary Hamel -

As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.

J. K. Rowling -

On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.

Jane Campion -

And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.

G.K. Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such a portent as a respectable poet. You say you are a poet of law I say you are a contradiction in terms. I only wonder there were not comets and earthquakes on the night you appeared in this garden.

Seth Adam Smith - Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person's Guide to Being Selfless

A garden is beautiful only when it is filled with people they determine its beauty

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in a garden filled with thousands of the same yellow flower, but they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple.

Djuna Barnes -

She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through which it has endured, and is not so much the work of man as the work of wind and rain and the herd of the seasons, and though formed in men's image is a figure of doom.

Monty Don - My Roots: A Decade in the Garden

Modern life is, for most of us, a kind of serfdom to mortgage, job and the constant assault to consume. Although we have more time and money than ever before, most of us have little sense of control over our own lives. It is all connected to the apathy that means fewer and fewer people vote. Politicians don’t listen to us anyway. Big business has all the power; religious extremism all the fear. But in the garden or allotment we are king or queen. It is our piece of outdoors that lays a real stak

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Our existence and our environment enclosed entities of divinity.

H.E. Bates -

Miss Parkinson lived alone in a big bay-windowed house of Edwardian brick with a vast garden of decaying fruit trees and untidy hedges of gigantic size. She was great at making elderberry wine and bottling fruit and preserves and lemon curd and drying flowers for winter. She felt, like Halibut, that things were not as they used to be. The synthetic curse of modern times lay thick on everything. There was everywhere a sad drift from Nature.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

God's creation is absolute amazing.He is the great God of wonders.

William Joyce - The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs

The garden is a miraculous place, and anything can happen on a beautiful moonlit night.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Every flower blossoms in its sacred time.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Nature displays beauty in its pure state.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Nature will always be nature.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Tree is tree.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

A walk in nature is connection with the Creator.

Jane Shellenberger - Organic Gardener's Companion: Growing Vegetables in the West

There are many paths leading to a garden and many experiences awaiting those who venture in. No matter what your motive—whether to grow healthy, delicious food; spend time outdoors feeling more alive than your desk job allows; help save the planet; find relaxation, solace, or healing; meet your neighbors; get your hands in the sweet earth; or discover for yourself just how abundant and generous nature can be—a garden rarely disappoints. It’s a magnet for life in all its quirky, beautiful forms.

Emil Dorian - 1937-1944

The garden has wrapped itself in autumn haze. An unusual autumn, lacking that thrill of vegetal warmth when the sap is still alive and holds up the trees, drunk on solar gold. It is the sorrowful climax of a summer's drought. Never before was I so struck by the cancerous emaciation in a garden. The leaves started turning yellow in July and began falling, like a dance of prematurely withered bodies.

Michael Pollan - Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens -- a ruin, sometimes even a dead tree -- the act of leaving parts of the garden untended, and calling attention to its margins, seems to undermine any pretense to perfect power or wisdom on the part of the gardener. The margins of our gardens can be tropes too, but figures of irony rather than transcendence -- antidotes, in fact, to our hubris. It may be in the margins of

Michael Pollan - The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

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

Lailah Gifty Akita -

The ripen fruit is for a sacred season.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

..So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. 1 Corinthians 3:7

Michael Pollan - Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and survival on many other forms of life, so he is careful to take their interests into account in whatever he does. He is in fact a wilderness advocate of a certain kind. It is when he respects and nurtures the wilderness of his soil and his plants that his garden seems to flourish most. Wildness, he has found, resides not only out there, but right here: in his soil, in his plants, even in himself...But

Michael Pollan - Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

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.

Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Ladder

Pride, anger and hatred are fruits from the same garden that poison the world when ripe. A leader cultivates no such fruits.

Angie karan -

By coming from our Soul, we are in the fullness of our being― This is the “garden” from which we grow

Miya Yamanouchi - Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

Our soul is like a soft and gentle flower, it needs to be nurtured, cared for, tended to, with sufficient sunlight, fresh air and freedom to bloom into its most precious and beautiful form. This, my friend, is self-love.

Neil Gaiman - Season of Mists

October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or shutting a book, did not end the tale.Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never difficult to find: "It is simply a matter," he explained to April, "of finding a sunny place in a garden, where the light is golden and the grass is soft; somewhere to rest, to stop reading, and to be content.

Meg Rosoff - How I Live Now

On the warm stone walls, climbing roses were just coming into bloom and great twisted branches of honeysuckle and clematis wrestled each other as they tumbled up and over the top of the wall. Against another wall were white apple blossoms on branches cut into sharp crucifixes and forced to lie flat against the stone. Below, the huge frilled lips of giant tulips in shades of white and cream nodded in their beds. They were almost finished now, spread open too far, splayed, exposing obscene black c

Anuradha Bhattacharyya - One Word

We are on a stroll, hand in hand, in a garden, in the moonlight and the sole purpose of such a venture is to come together in love.

Arshdeep Singh Samrala -

keep love in your heart. A life without is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead ...

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

O Heavenly Children, God has blessed you all with many treasures that only the most purehearted already know. His fruitful garden is vast and without measure, and in your own very bodies, He has planted metals of copper, silver and gold.

Bobbi Junod - Do You Doubt the Daffodil?

What is it about human nature that when we are touched in a way that is life changing we want to share the experience with others. I have to think it is about bringing gifts from spirit back to the spirit in humans. All I know is that after I experienced the four years of intimate conversations with God/spirit/my higher self/the universe and the resulting growth and healing, I would ask myself, “What should I do?” and the answer was always, relentlessly, write a book and share it.

Munia Khan -

Souls are flowers, only God has the right to pluck them. But those who commit suicide: their souls are the rotten blossoms of devil's garden.

Charles Baudelaire -

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Louis MacNeice - Collected Poems 1925-1948

The Sunlight on the GardenThe sunlight on the gardenHardens and grows cold,We cannot cage the minuteWithin its nets of gold,When all is toldWe cannot beg for pardon.Our freedom as free lancesAdvances towards its end;The earth compels, upon itSonnets and birds descend;And soon, my friend,We shall have no time for dances.The sky was good for flyingDefying the church bellsAnd every evil ironSiren and what it tells:The earth compels,We are dying, Egypt, dyingAnd not expecting pardon,Hardened in hear

Sanhita Baruah - The Farewell and other poems

She awaits the rain like a writer embraces metaphors,A drizzle isn't for the child who dances in the storm.Of rain that washes away the petrichor it brings,A downpour of a hail of bullets, and she calls it spring.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

If only we wait on God's timings, we shall eat of the best fruits from the tree of life in the garden of God.

Seth Adam Smith - Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern

This plant represents what's happening inside of you. The world, like the soil, is cold and dark—layered with a history of destruction and death. You were planted in this world to rise above it. Do you not see? The very existence of this darkness gives you the opportunity to become a light to the world.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Faith is a fertile field.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Faith is a sacred fruit.

Michael Pollan - Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

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.

Roman Payne -

I like the posture, but not the yoga. I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but not the garden, the moment but not the dream. Quiet, my love. Be still. I am sleeping.

Amy Lowell -

A black cat among roses,phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon,the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still.It is dazed with moonlight,contented with perfume...

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

A JEWELRY STORE NAMED INDIAIf you hold this Dazzling emeraldUp to the sky,It will shine a billion Beautiful miraclesPainted from the tearsOf the Most High.Plucked from the lush gardensOf a yellowish-green paradise,Look inside this hypnotic gemAnd a kaleidoscope of Titillating, Soul-raising Sights and colorsWill tease and seduceYour eyes and mind.Tell me, sir.Have you ever heardA peacock sing?Hold your earTo this mystical stoneAnd you will hearSacred hymns flowingTo the vibrationsOf the perfumedW

Sharon Kay Penman - The Reckoning

I’ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though, hope does not flourish in every garden, and I feel thankful it has taken root in mine.

W.S. Merwin - What Is a Garden?

A garden is made of hope.

Diana Rowland - My Life as a White Trash Zombie

The over-weight and out of shape guy who owned the house had apparently decided that having a half-million dollar house meant that he couldn’t afford to hire someone to clean out his gutters. Now he was dead with what looked to me like a broken neck after the ladder had slipped. He’d taken the plunge into his fancy landscaping—complete with rock garden. But hey, his fucking gutters were clean.

William Goldman - The Princess Bride

Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

A pineapple is a compilation of berries that grow and fuse together. When joined, they create a single fruit. And within each eyelet, contains a location where a flower may grow. I see the Creator of all existence as the crown on a pineapple, and all religions of the world as the spiky eyelets, where each eyelet symbolizes a different religion or race under the same crown. Each garden of faith may have different perspectives of God, yet every garden belongs to the same God.

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

We were all born to be peaceful citizens of the world. Take care of your global garden and do not allow evil gardeners to try and convince you which flowers are ugly and which should be destroyed. This is God's universe and he is the master gardener of all. If you see ugliness in his creations, then you see ugliness in our Creator. Wake up. If we eliminate all colors in his garden, then what would be a rainbow with only one color? And what would be a garden with only one kind of flower? Why woul

Steve Maraboli - and Being Free

Don't let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden.

Debasish Mridha -

Happiness will grow if you plant the seeds of love in the garden of hope with compassion and care.

Anthony T.Hincks -

Beauty is seeing a flower bloom in a garden or in nature.Artificial is seeing that same flower try and grow in a vase of water.

Anthony T.Hincks -

In God's garden even the weeds are beautiful.

Anthony T.Hincks -

In God's garden even the weeds are beautiful.In my garden, I've only got weeds. I think they're a nuisance.

Anthony T. Hincks -

I don't have a garden full of flowers.I have a garden full of love.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Faith in God is the fruit of the earth.

Vera Nazarian - The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

The garden of God is full of ripen fruits.

Robert Trabold - Watching the River Flow By: Selected Poems

Garden’s hush opens upan abyss at my center, still point.Someone touches me, mystery, otherness.No words are spoken, silencethe language of God.Silence, calm, hushed garden usher me into a presence, presence of my beloved.Let me rest in this quiet visit, gift that puts a beautifulend to a hectic day.Someone is with me—that is all that matters!-Evening Hush

Akshay Vasu -

In the graveyard built on a garden. The death of Every flower added a little life to the heart of the corpses buried deep inside.

Ana Monnar -

My daughter and two sons are the flowers in my heart and garden.

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Artists are the flowers of our world. The best ones are those who can stand out from the crowd by becoming a memorable flower — one that moves us, inspires us, and makes us think hard. A flower with no smell to it is just something to look at. A flower that emits a beautiful fragrance is the one we want in our homes and on our walls. Your mission as an artist, is to become the best-smelling flower in the world, so that when the day finally comes when you are plucked from the ground, the world wi

Dominic Riccitello -

I loved you, I did. I believe I even sold myself a bit: on your love, my lust, your hair and just the way we stood there. How the air smelled of you, the way your shirt was cursed with blues. The way we danced by the ocean in front your mini-garden. The white fence, your loveliness and the heavenly kisses. It’ll always be the sheets, lying beside, holding your arm and kissing your hair in a loving stride.

Omar Khayyám -

My tomb shall be in a spot where the north wind may scatter roses over it.

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

I am for true world peace and building a beautiful global garden for our children.

James Joyce -

The peace of the gardens and the kindly lights in the windows poured a tender influence into his restless heart.

Kristen Reed - Out of the Garden

The first sight I beheld when I first awakened was a pair of eyes filled with pure adoration and a joyful grin that shone more brightly than the afternoon sun. Though he hadn’t spoken a single word, I knew exactly who he was. He was my creator … my Lord … my God.

Rachel Hartman - Seraphina

This is my mind's garden, I tend it; I order it. I have nothing to fear.

Erik Pevernagie -

In the beginning was the word and the word was love and love was imagination. When love takes us through the sun-dappled garden of our imagination, no stalking horses can perturb the rainbow in our mind or fade out its bright colors reflecting in the blue sky of our memory. ("Alpha and Omega")

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Talk a walk with me through nature and let’s gaze on the marvelous wonders of creation.

Craig D. Lounsbrough - Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living

All too soon the garden of childhood is paved cold with the asphalt roads of adulthood. And while it is not within her power to halt this unrelenting progression, a mother can diligently guard this most precious garden and insure that the roads become gentle paths that wind through it instead of byways that kill it.

Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden

Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden - in all the places.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Sow good seeds for a bountiful harvest of good fruits.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

We ought to discover the beauty of creation through a walk in nature.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

We can all produce good fruits with fertile soil.

Muse - Enigmatic Evolution

Agony's PlotA zephyr skimmedacross my creamy skingently kissingwhere the sun had been....

Sarah Addison Allen - Garden Spells

He stared up at the moon, which looked like a giant hole in the sky, letting light through to the other side.

Charlotte Eriksson -

You’re thinking, maybe it would be easier to let it sliplet it gosay ”I give up” one last time and give him a sad smile.You’re thinkingit shouldn’t be this hard,shouldn’t be this dark,thinkinglove could flow easily with no holding backand you’ve seen others find their match and build something greattogether,of each other,like two halves fitting perfectly and now they achieve great thingsone by one, always together, and it seems grand.But you love him. Love him like a black stone in your chest yo

Jalaluddin Rumi -

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom

Walter de la Mare - Peacock Pie

A poor old Widow in her weedsSowed her garden with wild-flower seeds;Not too shallow, and not too deep,And down came April -- drip -- drip -- drip.Up shone May, like gold, and soonGreen as an arbour grew leafy June.And now all summer she sits and sewsWhere willow herb, comfrey, bugloss blows,Teasle and pansy, meadowsweet,Campion, toadflax, and rough hawksbit;Brown bee orchis, and Peals of Bells;Clover, burnet, and thyme she smells;Like Oberon's meadows her garden isDrowsy from dawn to dusk with

John E. Wordslinger -

The garden was full of sorrowSongbirds and unusual winds whistled a rhymeClouds caused to appear and cast down darknessFor this was the first day the sun didn't shine

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

THE MOTH AND THE BUTTERFLYWhen the sun rises over the horizon,the butterfly emerges to dance in its brilliant light.It flickers its colorful wings with euphoria,To celebrate all the beauty foundin the majestic garden of life.When the moon arrives in the darkness,The moth appears at the disappearance of sunlight.It flickers its pale wings as it shakes from its deep slumber,To go search for foodTo carry it through the night.The moth prefers the moon and detests the sun,while the butterfly loves th

H. L. Balcomb -

It thanked her for the life she breathed into hits being; without her influence, this little being would not have been in the Garden of Glory.

Benjamin Franklin - Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School

A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.

Lois Lowry - Gathering Blue

... and she was awed to see that vibrant life still struggled to thrive despite such destruction.

Nicole Krauss - The History of Love

She abandoned the garden, and the mums and asters that had trusted her to see them through to the first frost hung their waterlogged heads.

Anthony Liccione -

I wonder, with all the flowers in the garden, how many of them ever think of hanging themselves with the garden hose, if ever they can.

Ahmad Ardalan - The Gardener of Baghdad

Two people, one city, different times; connected by a memoir. Can love exist in a city destined for decades of misery?

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