Reading Garden Quotes

#1. Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if theyre lucky enough and have reasonable privileges of any human being-are able to go into a garden and turn over stone and see a worm and see a slug and see an ant.

David Attenborough

#2. I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Francine Pascal

#3. Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.

Katherine Paterson

#4. Reading is a bridge from misery to hope.

Rebecca VanDeMark

#5. I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.

Hayley Mills

#6. Gardening is really an extended form of reading, of history and philosophy. The garden itself has become like writing a book. I walk around and walk around. Apparently people often see me standing there and they wave to me and I don't see them because I am reading the landscape.

Jamaica Kincaid

#7. What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#8. I really like the video and I'm reading Sarah book Garden Spells

Sarah Addison Allen

#9. There is something divine, something artistic, and something supreme in reading a book in a peaceful garden.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#11. I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite a mess! The experience of reading the novel keeps deepening for me.

Ellen Potter

#12. What about damp? What about flooding? Wouldn't it make sense to have a little lawn or garden as a sort of buffer zone between the house and the water? But then it wouldn't be Venice, said Connie's voice in my head. Then it would be Staines.

David Nicholls

#13. I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first.

Conrad Veidt

#14. I love a garden and a book.

Eliza Lucas

#15. May I a small house and large garden have;
And a few friends,
And many books, both true.

Abraham Cowley

#16. Oscar was raised to believe that if he stayed in his room reading about made up worlds it meant he didn't appreciate the life he had, the possessions his parents had worked hard for, like the TV and the video and the newly turfed back garden.

Benjamin Wood

#17. I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen persona. Here is Robert, known for his portrayal of many characters, including gangsters. But in real life, he is elegant and erudite. He sits in the garden reading the sonnets of William Shakespeare.

Luanne Rice

#18. I've got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic.

Geri Halliwell

#19. A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Charles Baudelaire