Famous Garden
Quotes
In his garden every man may
be his own artist without
apology or explanation.
Each within his green
enclosure is a creator,
-Louise Beebe Wilder
To forget how to dig the
earth and to tend the soil
is to forget ourselves.
- Mahatma Gandhi
I have never had so many
good ideas day after day as
when I work in the garden.
- John Erskine
The best fertilizer is the
gardener's shadow.
- Author Unknown
Science,
or para-science, tells us
that geraniums bloom better
if they
are spoken to. But a
kind word every now and then
is really quite
enough. Too much
attention, like too much
feeding, and weeding
and hoeing, inhibits and
embarrasses them.
- Victoria
Glendinning
There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to
creep up behind someone at
their work, you would find
them smiling. ~Mirabel
Osler
The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him
there. ~George Bernard
Shaw, The Adventures of
the Black Girl in Her Search
for God, 1932
The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the
five senses. ~Hanna
Rion
In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of
flowers is also my garden of
thoughts and dreams.
The thoughts grow as freely
as the flowers, and the
dreams are as beautiful.
~Abram L. Urban
Don't wear perfume in the garden - unless you want to be pollinated by
bees. ~Anne Raver
Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil,
getting dirty without
feeling guilty, and
generally taking the time to
soak up a little peace and
serenity. ~Lindley
Karstens,
noproblemgarden.com
I know that if odour were visible, as colour is,
I'd see the summer garden in
rainbow clouds.
~Robert Bridges, "Testament
of Beauty
How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence.
~Benjamin Disraeli
Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the
imagination. ~Mrs.
C.W. Earle, Pot-Pourri
from a Surrey Garden,
1897 (Thanks,
Jessica)
I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a
garden at the cool of the
day. ~F. Frankfort
Moore, A Garden of Peace
Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves,
secret corners, unexpected
deviations, seductive
surprises and then still
more curves. ~H.E.
Bates, A Love of Flowers
I have never had so many good ideas day after day as
when I worked in the garden.
~John Erskine
Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul. ~Linda
Solegato
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