Gardens Quotes

These gardens may be called the gardens of the respectable working classes.

People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

No doubt these rocky islands have suggested the idea worked out in gardens, and they have been well imitated.

The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens.

The devout have laid out gardens in the desert.

This house was our dream-the gardens, the study, even the swimming pool. Even though I can't see John when I wake up in the morning, I can always feel him here with me.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions, of years they have co-evolved to live in local climate and soil conditions.

Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.

I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants.

I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.

A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.

As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit.

I got involved in Gateway National Park and just became fascinated with gardens.

In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.

I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and songwriting, but just the way he lived his life, decorated his gardens and homes. He was a dear friend of mine. His entire approach to music was very unique.

Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.

I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural.

There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.