Sea Garden Quotes

#1. I'd made my sea garden to atone for the terrible wrong I had done to a man I loved, I said. Sometimes you have to do something with your pain because otherwise it will swallow

Rachel Joyce

#2. So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert. And so the beauty of lilies falls on angels and men, bears and squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees ...

John Muir

#3. With just a little drop of kindness you can water a whole garden.

Heather Wolf

#4. I have felt something in the garden I discovered. I have felt the presence of something other. And now, standing in the dark, with a salt wind blowing up from the invisible sea, from the remembered beloved river ...

Helen Humphreys

#5. 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

#6. The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. But the sea
which no one tends
is also a garden

William Carlos Williams

#8. By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari. It was nuts.

Michael J. Fox

#9. For everything that God desires to do in the earth, He enters into partnership with those to whom He has already given dominion.

Myles Munroe

#10. Wherever Harry went inside the tiny cottage or its garden, he could hear the constant ebb and flow of the sea, like the breathing of some great, slumbering creature.

J.K. Rowling

#11. 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

#12. The human condition means that we can zone out and forget what the hell we're doing.

Bill Murray

#13. I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.

Zosia Mamet

#14. History is like a ghost. It is as dead as alive.

Kedar Joshi

#15. It seemed sometimes as if love and hate and jealousy and adverse winds at sea might also find their proper remedies among the curious wild-looking plants in Mrs. Todd's garden.

Sarah Orne Jewett

#16. Machines are the opium of the masses. If all the machines in England were thrown into the North Sea tomorrow, we should be back in the Garden of Eden. And the weather would probably improve.

Helen Cresswell

#17. Feeling free of full & empty, feeling here but also there,
Neither or but simply both, a universe within, one single stare.

Jay Woodman

#18. When I first saw you when we were destined, I promised myself that I wouldn't force you to love me, but I would find a way to win you.

Andrea Cremer

#19. Soft moonlight touches my lips and cheeks,
I feel your soul dance in my heart.
Breeze of the Southern sea blows my hair,
I feel your love touch my flowers of desire,
In my garden roses dance with the kindness of air.
I feel my soul wanting her bliss to share.

Debasish Mridha

#20. Thus I hope to have kept the sound of the sea and the birds, dawn and garden subconsciously present, doing their work under ground.

Virginia Woolf

#21. Really, what [sea] ice does is it acts like a garden. ... Losing that ice is like losing the soil in a garden.

Paul Nicklen

#22. I have a very nice garden and extraordinary markets, where there are products from the earth and the sea, in the French Basque country.

Alain Ducasse

#23. Well, one of the things I did was recreate her home in my home.

Debbie Reynolds

#24. Next to a mother she wanted a quiet place where she could be alone when she wanted to be; to listen to the wind telling her strange tales, or hold the big spotted shell that murmured of the sea to her ear, or talk to the roses in the garden.

L.M. Montgomery

#25. My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the holiday boarding house of her mother and he in his father's market garden in Marton Moss, a village on the south side of Blackpool, just north of Saint Anne's-on-Sea.

Michael Smith

#26. It is an old dream: To travel on the back of a benevolent sea beast down to some secret underwater garden.

Stephen Harrigan

#27. To talk of atomic energy in terms of atomic bombs is like talking of electricity in terms of the electric chair.

Pyotr Kapitsa

#28. Papa," Alessandro said, his eyes closing. "She swims nude in the sea. She carries a pistol. And she wears perfume that makes me dizzy. Sometimes I go to the garden gate and smell the handle, because, when she touches it, the perfume stays.

Mark Helprin

#29. Of all the trees that have ever been cultivated by man, the genealogical tree is the driest. It is one, we may be sure, that had no place in the garden of Eden. Its root is in the grave; its produce mere Dead Sea fruit ...

Amelia B. Edwards

#30. I don't need your praise
to survive. I was here first,
before you were here, before
you ever planted a garden.
And I'll be here when only the sun and moon
are left, and the sea, and the wide field.
I will constitute the field.

Louise Gluck

#31. So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from the pulpit to my increasingly incongruent faith.

Sue Monk Kidd

#32. O grant me a house by the beach of a bay,
Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play
With the sea-weed in summer, ye bountiful powers!
And I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray,
For a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

Andrew Lang