Top 100 Sayings About A Garden
#2. It is my hope that our garden's story-and the stories of gardens across America-will inspire families, schools, and communities to try their own hand at gardening and enjoy all the gifts of health, discovery, and connection a garden can bring.
Michelle Obama
#3. A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
Gertrude Jekyll
#4. The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.
Oscar Wilde
#5. Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.
Blaise Pascal
#6. . . .in your light, had I learned to love, here
in your beauty, could I speak
knowing of this space close within
as the breath held inside a garden rose, there -
there is no time.
John Daniel Thieme
#7. 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.
George Ball
#8. Because a garden mean constantly making choices, it offers almost limitless possibilities for surprise and satisfaction.
Jane Garmey
#9. The less help you have in a garden the more yours it is.
Nikki Yanofsky
#11. Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not an absence but a presence. Not an emptiness but repletion A filling up.
Anne D. LeClaire
#12. Do you live in a mine field or a garden? When we live in a minefield mentality, we explode with the weeds of worry, doubt, fear, lack and limitation. Choose to cultivate your inner garden!
Michael Beckwith
#14. In a garden you can find, quiet thoughts that calm the mind.
Patience Strong
#15. Every parent has the responsibility to cultivate his child's heart. If we leave our children's heart alone, they tend to become like a garden, overgrown with evil and with sin.
Robert Jeffress
#16. For ever tear dropped, a new seed within you is planted, from which a garden predicting better days will surely emerge.
Daniel Marques
#17. My thatched hut;
the whole sky Is its roof
The mountains are its hedge,
And it has the sea for a garden.
I'm inside with nothing at all,
Not even a bag,
And yet there are visitors who say "
It's hidden behind a bamboo door"
- Muso Soseki
Muso Soseki
#18. It's my destiny to make a place where people can come and be happy: a garden of joy.
Niki De St. Phalle
#19. I'm a regular Canadian girl. I enjoy staying home. In the summer I've got a garden. I'm very much a homebody, a normal, family-oriented girl. But I do have this other incredible side of my life that involves acting and traveling.
Elisha Cuthbert
#20. A garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature.
Jeff Cox
#21. In a maize field choose to be a flower. In a garden of daises choose to be a rose.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#22. Which story do you want to hear my child?"he picked him up and made him sit on his lap.
"Tell us the story of that fairy who lived in a house of wafers,had a garden of chocolate trees and a pond full of goldfishes,"the child wrapped his arms around his shoulder.
Chitralekha Paul
#23. I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.
Mary Wesley
#24. When I see a garden in flower, then I believe in God for a second. But not the rest of the time
Svetlana Alexievich
#25. If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.
Maria Montessori
#26. In the graveyard built on a garden. The death of Every flower added a little life to the heart of the corpses buried deep inside.
Akshay Vasu
#27. When a garden is used as a place to pause for thought, that is when a Zen garden comes to life. When you contemplate a garden like this it will form as lasting impression on your heart.
Muso Soseki
#28. The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft; and gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
John Keats
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. Every creature and plant is part of her (mother nature's) amazing interconnected garden ... The whole world is a garden.
Costa Georgiadis
#32. Everything, even sweeping, scraping vegetables, weeding a garden and waiting on the sick could be a prayer, if it were offered to God.
Mary Fabyan Windeatt
#33. 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
#34. I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?
Ian St. John
#35. There is a garden in her eyes, where roses and white lilies flow.
Thomas Campion
#37. There's no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it - I make this statement all the time: You can't plan nature; you court her.
Robert Irwin
#38. Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.
Christopher Alexander
#39. 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
#40. One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the winds and rains, in birds and insects, in the warm-smelling earth.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
#41. Gardening is like everything else in life, you get out of it as much as you put in. No one can make a garden by buying a few packets of seeds or doing an afternoon's weeding. You must love it, and then your love will be repaid a thousandfold, as every gardener knows.
Margery Fish
#42. Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#43. The fabric of a garden is determined as much by its textures as by its tonal range and architectural flair.
John Burnside
#44. Gardens were meant to be seen, smelled, walked through, grubbed in. A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#45. A person who takes a concrete place and convert it into a garden of flowers is a real magician!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#46. 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
#47. I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the page, it's a garden shed. And then you just try to make it the best shed you can.
Sadie Jones
#49. I know because I read ... Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.
Libba Bray
#51. And now to one side Gorgythion drooped his head and heavy helmet; He let it fall over like the bloom of a garden poppy, heavy with seed and the rains of spring.
Homer
#52. This man obviously contained some sort of catalytic converter that rendered the filth of his language as natural and inoffensive as dirt in a garden.
David James Duncan
#53. Self-expression has to come out pure. It has to have an environment waiting for it. It has to have a garden it can plant itself in.
Melinda Gebbie
#54. Sometimes he dug in his garden; again, he read or wrote. He had but one word for both these kinds of toil; he called them gardening. "The mind is a garden," said he.
Victor Hugo
#55. I have a garden of my own, But so with roses overgrown, And lilies, that you would it guess To be a little wilderness.
Andrew Marvell
#56. Dear Jean, I have seen a deer. I have petted a pony. I helped plant a garden. I have smelled earth and felt it in my hands. You watched the sun rise. These things are worth the struggle to live outside.
Anne Bishop
#57. The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.
Oscar Wilde
#58. What is love without passion? - A garden without flowers, a hat without feathers, tobogganing without snow.
Lady Randolph Churchill
#59. The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
Loretta Lynn
#60. Life, it is not simple like a garden, where flowers are always flowers and weeds are always weeds.
Lesley Kagen
#61. If you are a garden plant you are regarded; well regarded, just as long as you stay in the garden.
Davies Gilbert
#62. Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.
John Bunyan
#64. We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.
B.B. King
#65. Look, Samuel, I mean to make a garden of my land. Remember my name is Adam. So far I've had no Eden, let alone been driven out." "It's the best reason I ever heard for making a garden," Samuel exclaimed. He chuckled.
John Steinbeck
#66. We know our end
A packet of worm-seed, a garden of spent tissues.
Allen Tate
#67. In the embers shining bright
A garden grows for thy delight,
With roses yellow, red, and white.
But, O my child, beware, beware!
Touch not the roses growing there,
For every rose a thorn doth bear.
Richard Watson Gilder
#68. Whoever is sitting with friends is in the midst of a flower garden, though he may be in the fire. Whoever sits with an enemy is in the fire, even though he is in the midst of a garden.
Rumi
#69. Your first job is to prepare the soil. The best tool for this is your neighbor's garden tiller. If your neighbor does not own a garden tiller, suggest that he buy one.
Dave Barry
#71. Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
Walt Whitman
#72. The real act of will was not in the creating of a garden but in the sustaining, the continuous stand against wildness.
Amy Waldman
#73. The mind is a garden of imagination;
thoughts are the plants of creation.
Debasish Mridha
#74. A Cabinet Minister, the responsible head of thar most vital of all departments, wandering alone - grieving - sometimes near audibly lamenting - for a door, for a garden!
H.G.Wells
#75. Oprah was famous for going to a garden party and ad-libbing. She could literally interview people for a half hour about nothing, and it was entertaining. She had her own show before she had her own show.
John Tesh
#76. A garden should be in a constant state of fluid change, expansion, experiment, adventure; above all it should be an inquisitive, loving, but self-critical journey on the part of its owner.
H.E. Bates
#77. Of all our sunny world, i wish only for a garden sofa where a cat is sunning itself
Edith Sodergran
#78. Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.
Alice Morse Earle
#80. They were an end-of-days couple, not naked in a garden but wrapped in layers in a snow-covered landscape where there were no more apples on the trees and women would no longer have to take the blame because the old lie had been covered over by snow.
Graham Joyce
#82. All this Magrathea nonsense seemed juvenile. Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? All
Douglas Adams
#83. But preserve your mistrust of the page, for a book is a fortress, a place of weeping, the key to a desert, a river that has no bridge, a garden of spears.
Sofia Samatar
#84. If we can have a fast food restaurant on almost every corner,
then we can certainly have a garden.
Bill De Blasio
#85. Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.
Margaret Atwood
#86. Life is a garden, not a road. We enter and exit through the same gate. Wandering, where we go matters less than what we notice.
Kurt Vonnegut
#87. Without an imaginative mind our life is a garden without flower.
Debasish Mridha
#89. An album is a garden, not for show
Planted, but use; where wholesome herbs should grow.
Charles Lamb
#90. If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#92. The life of prayer is so great and various there is something in it for everyone. It is like a garden which grows everything, from alpines to potatoes.
Evelyn Underhill
#93. The essence of the enjoyment of a garden is that things should look as though they like to grow in it.
Beatrix Farrand
#94. Should it not be remembered that in setting a garden we are painting a picture?
Beatrix Farrand
#95. A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb.
Joseph Beach
#96. The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
Jack Kornfield
#97. Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.
Ken Kesey
#98. No, I'm putting it away, trying to buy a house for my family. The goal is to use the money to move into a big house, so my daughter can have a garden.
Ewan McGregor
#100. A beautiful person is protected like a beautiful flower in a garden which many gardeners tend.
Bryant McGill
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