Garden Quotes

• The heavens are now seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions, in different flourishing beds.

  

  William Herschel
  • Different
  • Science
  • Heaven

• In short, it occurred to me that perhaps the only possible avant garde is the avant garden.

  

  Peter Lamborn Wilson
  • Garden
  • Avant-Garde

• I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Death
  • Passion
  • Departing

• I enjoyed playing everywhere, especially my mother's garden and my neighbor's. I loved my kindergarten. We sang songs; we played everywhere and ate lunch. I had a childhood that I would wish for anyone.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • Mother
  • Wish
  • Childhood

• Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The Child Garden' is exquisite and utterly beguiling. Mervyn Peake's 'Gormenghast' trilogy is an astonishing piece of multi-faceted storytelling. So quality of writing does not condemn the genre.

  

  David Gemmell
  • Writing
  • Quality
  • Garden

• When I was a boy, I took over the shed at the bottom of the garden and displayed fossils and potsherds and coins in it and proudly called it my 'museum'. I charged people to come in, and my most prized possession was a Saracen shield dating from the Crusades.

  

  Kevin Crossley-Holland
  • People
  • Boy
  • Dating

• If you want to be an architect of change by raising great kids, God bless. If you want to do it by raising money for your kid's school, great. If you want to build a garden - whatever it is. Women like myself - they're complicated, and they have a lot of different interests and qualities within them.

  

  Maria Shriver
  • Great
  • God
  • Different

• I don't ask questions. I just figure the extra warm days are God's way of rewarding me for Garden State

  

  Zach Braff
  • God
  • Way
  • States

• People compared Garden State to the Graduate, but when was the last time you saw Dustin Hoffman doing what I do?

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Time
  • Garden

• 'The Secret Garden' was the first musical that I fell in love with when I was a kid. My mom took me to see it, and it was the first one that I owned the soundtrack to and listened to over and over again.

  

  Allison Tolman
  • Mom
  • Garden

• A garden scheme should have a backbone - a central idea beautifully phrased.

  

  Edwin Lutyens
  • Idea
  • Scheme
  • Backbone

• Death is only an old door/Set in a garden wall.

  

  Nancy Byrd Turner
  • Death
  • Door
  • Wall

• On the one hand, the great focal points and the main arteries of traffic speak of the dignity of government and the easy movement of commerce. But we need also the more intimate side of city planning, the by ways with their little shops, the occasional drinking fountain at a street corner, the glimpse of some secluded garden through a half-open gate.

  

  Clarence Stein
  • Great
  • City
  • Hand

• I've realized that I really like spending time in the countryside and having a garden.

  

  Doutzen Kroes
  • Time
  • Garden

• Way over yonder is a place I have seen In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.

  

  Carole King
  • Long
  • Dream
  • Way

• I like to walk around. And I have a really big garden in Brooklyn. Growing tomatoes in my backyard feels very rewarding.

  

  Anna Ewers
  • Growing
  • Garden

• If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Plant

• One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.

  

  W. E. Johns
  • Desire
  • Garden
  • Essentials

• He speaks Bear-garden. That is, such rude and uncivil, or sordid and dirty language, as the rabble that frequent those sports, are wont to use.

  

  John Ray
  • Sports
  • Dirty
  • Rude

• Growing your own garden is way less expensive than going out shopping and eating.

  

  Anna Getty
  • Growing
  • Garden
  • Shopping

• Now stand you on the top of happy hours, And many maiden gardens yet unset, With virtuous wish would bear you living flowers, Much liker than your painted counterfeit: So should the lines of life that life repair Which this, Time's pencil, or my pupil pen Neither in inward worth nor outward fair Can make you live your self in eyes of men.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Wish
  • Eye

• The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Country
  • Kids
  • Mistake

• People's live are expressed in little details....The soap in the bathroom, the flowers in the garden, the books on the bedside table are all strong symbols of a life in progress. You look at these details and a world unfolds - here are their books, the paintings they cherish, the music that soothes their souls.

  

  Charlotte Moss
  • Book
  • Soul
  • Strong

• Is 'Garden State' the next 'Citizen Kane'? Of course not. I'd like to think we aimed a little higher than that, frankly.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Garden

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