Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes About Gardens

Quotes about: Gardens

• People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for... They don't find it," I answered. And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..." Of course," I answered. And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Heart, Eye, Garden

• You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Life, Dog, Responsibility

  "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, (Ch. XXI), 1943.

• The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out of the darkness of night or tempest toward a sun-drenched Alicante or Santiago; there is the swelling sense of returning to repossess one's place in life, in the miraculous garden of earth, where are trees and women and, down by the harbor, friendly little bars. When he has throttled his engine and is banking into the airport, leaving the somber cloud masses behind, what pilot does not break into song?

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Song, Jobs, Night

• And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Princess, Heart, Garden

• 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.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Garden, Museums, Dancing

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