Victor Hugo Quotes About Gardens

Quotes about: Gardens

• Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Positive

• A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Stars, Flower

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

• What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

  Victor Hugo

  Beauty, Nature, Garden

• To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation and contemplating its vast ramifications full of stars. We have a duty to perform, to cultivate the human soul, to defend mystery against miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and to reject the absurd; to admit nothing that is inexplicable excepting what is necessary, to purify faith and obliterate superstition from the face of religion, to remove the vermin from the garden of God.

  Victor Hugo

  Crush, Stars, Fall

• Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. To love another person is to see the face of God.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Eye, Passion

• What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in the daytime, and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with the sky for a background, enough to enable him to adore God in his most beautiful as well as in his most sublime works? Indeed, is not that all, and what more can be desired? A little garden to walk, and immensity to reflect upon. At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate upon: a few flowers on the earth, and all the stars in the sky.

  Victor Hugo

  Beautiful, Stars, Flower

• Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he

  Victor Hugo

  Garden, Names, Two

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.14, Wordsworth Editions

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