Garden Quotes - Page 16

• In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.

  Louise Wilder

  Apology, Artist, Men

  Louise Beebe Wilder (1918). “Colour in My Garden”

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• In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.

  Sam Llewellyn

  Death, Sex, Dying

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• There are fairies at the bottom of our garden.

  Rose Fyleman

  Earth, Fairy, Bottom

  Punch 23 May 1917 "Fairies"

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• I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden.

  Moon Unit Zappa

  Men, Tree, Fronts

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• One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

  Francis Cabot Lowell

  Imagination, Goal, Lifetime

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• Thy Return is as another Sun to Heaven; a new Rose blooming in the Garden of the Soul.

  Omar Khayyam

  Love, Rose, Heaven

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• Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

  Marcel Proust

  Thank You, Thankful, Appreciation

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.

  Robert Harbison

  Mean, Men, Essentials

  Robert Harbison (1977). “Eccentric Spaces”, p.20, MIT Press

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• A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy

  Luis Barragan

  Joy, Serenity, Feelings

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• While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

  John Muir

  Peace, Nature, Fall

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are.

  Unknown

  Horse, Food, Cooking

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• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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• They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.

  Conor Oberst

  Sad, Spring, Sleep

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• A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us.

  Wendell Berry

  Home, Practice, Mind

  Wendell Berry (2017). “The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry”, p.61, Penguin UK

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• It's amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again.

  Roger Taylor

  Squares, Schedules, Madison

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• Working in the garden gives me something beyond the enjoyment of the senses. It gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.

  Ruth Stout

  Profound, Giving, Inner Peace

  Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside

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• Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Eden, Desire, Stills

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.10

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• Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more.

  Rip Torn

  Helping, Grows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Much like a subtle spider which doth sit
  In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide;
  If aught do touch the utmost thread of it,
  She feels it instantly on every side.

  Sir John Davies

  Sides, Spiders, Thread

  Robert Anderson, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset (1795). “The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces”, p.695

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• The best recipe for happiness and contentment I've seen is this: dig a big hole in the garden of your thoughts and put into it all your disillusions, disappointments, regrets, worries, troubles, doubts, and fears. Cover well with the earth of fruitfulness. Water it from the well of contentment. Sow on top the seeds of hope, courage, strength, patience, and love. Then when the time for gathering comes, may your harvest be a rich and fruitful one.

  Zig Ziglar

  Happiness, Regret, Disappointment

  Zig Ziglar (2000). “Staying Up, Up, Up in a Down, Down World: Daily Hope for the Daily Grind”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Weed, Nature

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.307, Delphi Classics

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• Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Flower, Sunshine

  Walt Whitman (1868). “Poems”, p.221

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• Gardening requires lots of water... most of it in the form of perspiration.

  Louise Erickson

  Funny, Hard Work, Water

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• 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 to that garden or is yet to be grown.

  Kedar Joshi

  Philosophy, Men, Tree

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  The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

  Wendell Berry

  Nature, Responsibility, Environmental

  Wendell Berry (1978). “The unsettling of America: culture & agriculture”, Random House (NY)

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