Garden Quotes

That is, the only reason salvation is necessary is to get us back to the garden. The Pentateuch not only presents where we began but also why we are not there any more, and why and how we need to get back.

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.

One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.

There are fairies at the bottom of our garden.

How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.

The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.

I hardly have any spare time! But when I do, I garden a lot - I love plants and flowers.

The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.

I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.

I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

I'm not a Luddite, but I'm outside more than I'm on my computer. We have a micro-farm - it's a step up from a garden. We have a pretty extensive vineyard. We grow about 60 percent of our own food, make our own wine, have chickens for eggs.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

I just go in my back garden. It's the only place where people don't come and bother you.

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

I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.

Eventually my goal is get a place in Ojai where I can have animals and a big garden. Just drink wine all day and hang in my garden.

You're making me feel like a skunk at the garden party.

Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden.

I walk my dogs. I garden a little. I play a bit of tennis. Basically when I have spare time I'm making music.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.