Rock Garden Quotes

#1. To the landscape architect a rock garden ... appears ... the work of a lunatic.

Louise Wilder

#2. This is the rock garden.
In it, the stones
too are flowers

Margaret Atwood

#3. That's what depression had wrought inside me: one, vast, barren rock garden-without the garden

Peter McWilliams

#4. I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.

Richard K. Diran

#5. In a rock garden we foster a little patch of the wilderness that stands to us for freedom.

Jason Hill

#6. Leave no stone unturned in your quest to disrupt a rock garden.

Demetri Martin

#7. 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

#8. I was born in 1972, which means that in "rock" terms I have no business addressing "the kids" unless it's to shoo them out of my garden.

Dan Bejar

#9. Shun artificial rocks like the plague.

Henry Sherman Adams

#10. It is the era that we take photos of, not the people in it, they can't be captured.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#11. Democracy has now become corrupted by the nature of the funders.

George Hamilton

#12. Take care when wandering about,
in the wilds of the valley and heights of jagged rock.
What a horrific garden of wonderland we have stumbled into;
where a turn of one's heel can lead to flowering jubilation,
and another leads to the twisted and thorny thicket of despair....

Kate Cullen

#13. The problem is not that people make any bond of affection they like with people they like; the problem is calling that bond of affection "love.

Daya Kudari

#14. Planting is not the end; it is only the beginning of planting.

Henry Sherman Adams

#15. Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

Arthur Young

#16. Certain plants, like certain friends, you enjoy having for a visit but do not care to see remain forever and a day.

Henry Sherman Adams

#17. They are all different and I find it hard to tell what flute suits me best.

James Galway

#18. A tree is an aerial garden, a botanical migration from the sea, from those earliest plants, the seaweeds; it is a purchase on crumbled rock, on ground. The human, standing, is only a different upsweep and articulation of cells. How treelike we are, how human the tree.

Gretel Ehrlich

#19. Behind the cool mask of bravado, past the one-way mirror of his mind, underneath the rock-solid layers of self-control, in the Zen garden that was Master Sewer's soul, a high-pitched anxiety fart rustled through the still leaves. If farts could talk, this one would have said, Damn coppers!

Sorin Suciu

#20. Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.

Haruki Murakami

#21. How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!

Rumi

#22. Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

#23. Fiddlesticks" is Scarlett O'Hara's way of saying "Fuck this shit.

Mary Norris

#24. When Bon Jovi goes out on tour again, that's who I'm going to go see because some of it survives... while the rest becomes compost in the garden of rock 'n' roll.

Lonn Friend

#25. Death is not too high a price for this - This taste of heaven -

Friedrich Schiller

#26. A woman who is not feminine is a monster in creation.

Elizabeth Missing Sewell