Simple Garden Quotes

#1. Do something that will last and be beautiful. It doesn't have to be a bridge-or a symphony or book or a business. It could be the look in the eye of a child you raise or a simple garden you tend. Do something that will last and be beautiful.

Ken Burns

#2. Never forget the power of love, but always forget the love of power.

Debasish Mridha

#3. Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#4. If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.

Mary Garden

#5. He dreaded the sound of his father's car in the driveway at night, knowing he would have to protect his mother, and probably be beaten in the process.

John Glatt

#6. There are no accidents ... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood.

Deepak Chopra

#7. How I would love to be transported into a scented Elizabethan garden with herbs and honeysuckles, a knot garden and roses clambering over a simple arbor.

Rosemary Verey

#8. The park admits the wind,
the petals lift and scatter

like versions of myself I was on the verge
of becoming; and ten years on

and ten blocks down I still can't tell
whether this dispersal resembles

a fist unclenching or waving goodbye.

Rachel Wetzsteon

#9. Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It's when you go backwards through the 'begats' and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, 'Hang on, that's a big punishment for eating one lousy apple ... There's a human-rights issue.'

Terry Pratchett

#10. My prayer for you is simple. May the power of love be with you. May kindness adorn your heart, and may simplicity find a peaceful place in your thoughts and actions.

Debasish Mridha

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

Barbara Damrosch

#12. I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.

Harvey Fierstein

#13. Life, it is not simple like a garden, where flowers are always flowers and weeds are always weeds.

Lesley Kagen

#14. 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

#15. How do you know your peanut butter has a pill inside of it? Take this simple test. Is your owner giving you peanut butter? If the answer is yes then the chances are are good that there is a pill in it.

Joe Garden

#16. The raw tomato, devoured in the garden when freshly picked, is a horn of abundance of simple sensations, a radiating rush in one's mouth that brings with it every pleasure ... a tomato, an adventure.

Muriel Barbery

#17. But in the garden of simple, where all of us are nameless, you were never anything but beautiful to me.

Ani DiFranco

#18. A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.
Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna

Rumer Godden

#19. It caught me sometimes: that this was okay. Just this. That simple beauty was still bearable barely, and that if I lived moment to moment, garden to stove to the simple act of flying, I could have peace.

Peter Heller

#20. Life already has so many boundaries and pressures - why add more in the garden?

Felder Rushing

#21. If you cannot be happy with the little you have, you can be confused with the lot you want to have

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#22. The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.

Doris Janzen Longacre

#23. A garden was one of the few thing in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it then harvest it, offered a simple but enduring satisfaction. The sense of being the custodian of this small patch of earth offered a taste of freedom.

Nelson Mandela

#24. Science chases money
and money chases its tail
and the best minds of my generation can't make bail.
But the bacteria are coming
that's my prediction.
It's the answer to this culture
of the quick-fix prescription.

Ani DiFranco