Good Garden Quotes

#1. A good garden may have some weeds.

Thomas Fuller

#2. 'Green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart. A good garden cannot be made by somebody who has not developed the capacity to know and love growing things.

Russell Page

#3. Good garden of peas!

Deborah Wiles

#4. I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.

C. Z. Guest

#5. Now there was the rustling of skirts, and it kicked up her smell, that distinctive blend of vanilla and violets, lavender and roses - an entire moving garden with a kitchen thrown in for good measure, and God save the allergic.

Meredith Duran

#6. The Good Gardener planted each of us here for a reason.

Seth Adam Smith

#7. Call them what you want. Garden gnomes. Lawn ornaments. Little evil outdoor statuary hell-bent on world domination. It doesn't matter. What does matter is that, right now, they're hiding in plain sight, pretending to be symbols of merriment and good will.

Chuck Sambuchino

#8. 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.

James Douglas

#9. And so we stayed out in the garden of the old house until we couldn't kick a ball, laughing in the gathering twilight, making the most of the good weather and all the days that were left, our little game watched only by next door's cat, and every star in the heavens.

Tony Parsons

#10. 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.

Mary Astell

#11. Good gardening is very simple, really. You just have to learn to think like a plant.

Barbara Damrosch

#12. Jenks made a face as he levered himself up on the sill. Much as I enjoy this horrific outpouring of estrogen, I'm going to go say good-bye to my wife. Let me know when you're ready. I'll be in the garden - probably next to the stink weed.

Kim Harrison

#13. Good bones are important, so it is wise to go slowly and get your plan right before launching into a vital project.

Rosemary Verey

#14. We ought to discover the beauty of creation through a walk in nature.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft.

Jessamyn West

#16. You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.

Dan Buettner

#17. A phrase from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil came to mind: Two tears in a bucket. Motherfuck it.

Zane

#18. Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed; when alone or in company; morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.

Michel De Montaigne

#19. Our minds work like a garden. It is fertile ground that accepts any and everything we plant. Good or evil, constructive or destructive, our lives will bear the fruit of the seeds we plant in our minds.

Iyanla Vanzant

#20. I was a good Indian girl, but naughty in that I would often sneak out of the back door and into the garden and go off with my friends when I should have been at home cooking or cleaning.

Gurinder Chadha

#21. Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend.

Ken Wilber

#22. Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden."
"But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!"
"I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing."
"That may be, but the muffins are the same!

Oscar Wilde

#23. Its like i was a garden salad with a light vinaigrette and Jackson was a platter of seafood Cajun pasta.
Alone we were good.
Together we were fantastic.

Lisa Schroeder

#24. I worked with Dionne Warwick, did shows with Bette Midler, and then I did the 25th anniversary of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Springsteen at the Garden. It was all important stuff because you want people to know you can work, you can sing, and you can still look good!

Darlene Love

#25. An hour's hard digging is a good way of getting one's mind back in the right perspective.

Richard Briers

#26. It is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles.

Sally Mann

#27. Fuck 'em. Call it whatever you want. Maybe it's just two people clinging to each other to stay alive. Maybe sometimes that's all love gets to be. And, maybe, if they hold onto each other long enough ... maybe something good finally happens.

Rick Remender

#28. Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that the only flowers to be admitted to the walled garden of good taste are discreet and pastel-hued.

Craig Brown

#29. A garden is never so good as it will be next year.

Thomas Cooper

#30. I don't want this life to end," said Alexander. "The good, the bad, the everything, the very old, to ever end.

Paullina Simons

#31. Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

#32. There are many people who claim to be good cooks; just as there are many people who, after having repainted the garden gate take themselves to be painters.

Fernand Point

#33. Child development: Most damaging course of action is attempting to keep children from experience or protect them from pain, for it is this time that children learn that life is a magic thing, if "not a rose garden." The parent's role is primarily to stand by with a good supply of band-aids.

Leo Buscaglia

#34. Good taste is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#35. In the garden the door is always open into the "holy" - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death.

May Sarton

#36. There are dead girls to mourn, and living girls who will struggle for years to adjust to life outside the Garden, if they even can. He still counts this as a good day.

Dot Hutchison

#37. Plants, like people, are social or anti-social: the good plant has to be able to live amicably with other plants in the border.

Richardson Wright

#38. The possession of a quantity of plants, however good the plants may be themselves and however ample their number, does not make a garden; it only makes a collection. Having got the plants, the great thing is to use them with careful selection and definite intention.

Gertrude Jekyll

#39. This is the centre of the gospel - this is what the Garden of Gethsemane and Good Friday are all about - that God has done astonishing and costly things to draw us near.

John Piper

#40. Beware of prejudice; light is good in whatsoever lamp it is burning; a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

Abdu'l- Baha

#41. Good havens! I suppose a man may eat his own muffin in his own garden.

Oscar Wilde

#42. The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites
man and woman, good and evil
are as holy as that of a god. (50)

Joseph Campbell

#43. If I could change anything about Garden State, it would be to cast somebody else for the female lead. Natalie just isn't really that good of an actress. Especially when compared to me. Just watch the two of us, it's light and dark. I am by far the better Jew.

Zach Braff

#44. Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.

Abraham Cowley

#45. The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.

Charles Dudley Warner

#46. I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden.

John Erskine

#47. I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either.

Meryl Streep

#48. The rain started while we sat in the kitchen, and we left the kitchen door open so we could watch the rain slanting past the doorway and washing the garden; Constance was pleased, the way any good gardener is pleased with rain.

Shirley Jackson

#49. The real wealth of a good gardener is not his salary but the marvellous flowers he is raising in the garden!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#50. A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

#51. The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.

Jane Goodall

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

Jim Carrey

#53. We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good
We'll do the best we know.
We'll build our house and chop our wood
And make our garden grow.
And make our garden grow!

Leonard Bernstein

#54. It is possible for science to make the world like the Garden of Eden! Amen. But it is also possible, and sometimes it seems more probable, that science will make the world a very good imitation of hell.

Maude Royden

#55. It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.

Maxim Gorky

#56. If I say a word that is angry, he explained, then I should never be surprised by the harm. And if I say something good, then it is like watching my own garden grow, and that is the greatest pleasure ever.

Marina Budhos

#57. Doing the good deeds is like the grass in the garden. You don't see its growth. But, it does by days. Doing the wicked deeds is like the hone. You don't see its damage. But, it does by days.

Gautama Buddha

#58. Our heart is a garden, which the good God has given us to cultivate, and we must always be aware of the weeds that grow without observation. It is necessary that we should unceasingly apply ourselves to the cultivation of the good and the extraction of the evil which might take root.

Christoph Von Schmid

#59. He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world with a passion for flowers in his soul.

Celia Thaxter

#60. I am old enough to enjoy a bit of nostalgia, but wise enough to know that there haven't been any "good ol' days" since Eden (the garden, not the prime minister).

Ron Brackin

#61. To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.

Gertrude Jekyll

#62. Reap your harvest. (Benefits) You have been sowing seeds on good soil. (Working Hard) Your garden is overflowing abundantly.(Successful) Now is the time for you to fill your basket with the fruits of your labor. (Savings). Prepare your soil for new seeds. (Investments)

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#63. The model for me is a touchstone, it is a door which I must break open in order to reach the garden in which I am alone and feel good, even the model exists only for what use I can make of it.

Henri Matisse

#64. I am always happy up a ladder with a paintbrush in my hand. And I wish I had more time to spend in the garden - not least because I get good ideas for writing when I'm out there.

Diane Setterfield

#65. You need a temple to feel good spiritually? Go to a beautiful garden!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#66. A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.

Samuel Johnson

#67. I wrote something when I was 9 that seemed pretty good for a 9 year old; it concerned flowers in our family garden - I was grateful my mother praised it. Of course, I found out later it was pretty silly, but it was the first poem I was proud of.

Brenda Hillman

#68. Watching something grow is good for morale. It helps us believe in life.

Myron Kaufmann

#69. If I can't read, if I can't make a simple Indian pudding, then I don't see the point in living much more, really. Because aside from a good book, and perhaps, a fresh morning in a dew-covered garden, few things in life give me as much pleasure as magic of making a truly spectacular dessert.

Sarah Strohmeyer

#70. On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.

Maya Angelou

#71. Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

#72. What good is all our busy religion if God isn't in it? What good is it if we've lost majesty, reverence, worship-an awareness of the divine? What good is it if we've lost a sense of the Presence and the ability to retreat within our own hearts and meet God in the garden?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#73. There may indeed be more to life than a pot of cheese, a garden, a few friends; but these things, at least, may be a pretty good start.

Will Buckingham

#74. It is a source of happiness to see the elderly working in their garden or looking from their windows! It is so good to see them alive and well!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#75. This town is like Gone with the Wind on mescaline!" From Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

John Berendt

#76. I'm no good at cooking or music, but I've always known how to garden. Nobody ever taught me; I just absorbed it. Some families are churchgoers or sports fans. We gardened.

Thalassa Cruso

#77. Each of us is like seed, planted by the Good Gardener so we might grow into something majestic.

Seth Adam Smith

#78. I am home for good like a tiny shoot. The tiny shoots in my mother's garden. I have a passion for idle chatter about books, language and literature. Preparing a meal together, that can be romantic.

Abigail George

#79. You may not know the story behind why a song or a garden is so beautiful or why a cake tastes so good but, if you pay enough attention, you can tell how much love is in it.

Catherine Carrigan

#80. Never thee stop believin' in th' Big Good Thing an' knowin' th' world's full of it - and call it what tha' likes. Tha' wert singin' to it when I come into t' garden.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#81. God had banished man from the Garden of Eden for daring to trespass upon the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
- But What if man learned to grow his own Tree? Where might it end?
- She didn't knew the answer. She knew only one thing for certain.
Someone had to stop Them

James Rollins

#82. Wherever you have a plot of land, however small, plant a garden. Staying close to the soil is good for the soul.

Spencer W. Kimball

#83. They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh!

Louise Jameson

#84. Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself. But if you want to have a good harvest, the most important thing is to make the soil rich and cultivate it well.

Shunryu Suzuki

#85. Anything you do sustainably feels so good that you're a full-on addict as soon as you try it. If you eat only vegetables and fruits that you grow yourself from your garden, or organic food, it tastes so much better and is so much better for you, you can't really go back.

Daryl Hannah

#86. If you do not sow good deeds, you fail to flourish your soul garden.

Lailah Gifty Akita