Diane Ackerman Quotes About Gardens

Quotes about: Gardens

• [On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit. ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if you cultivate delight.

  Diane Ackerman

  Garden, Thinking, Mind

• Violets smell like burnt sugar cubes that have been dipped in lemon and velvet.

  Diane Ackerman

  Garden, Smell, Sugar

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.9, Vintage

• Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.

  Diane Ackerman

  Struggle, Journey, Garden

• Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives.

  Diane Ackerman

  Garden, Boston, House

  Diane Ackerman (2014). “The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us”, p.62, W. W. Norton & Company

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