Garden Quotes

• When someone walks into my room and goes 'wow' at my record collection, at that moment I could actually hate music and just want to go sit in the garden.

  

  Erol Alkan
  • Music
  • Record
  • Collection

• I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.

  

  Mireille Guiliano
  • Garden
  • Flower
  • Cities

• For me, a garden is peace of mind. It immediately takes my mind off the thing I'm puzzling about in my work and gives me repose.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Puzzling

• Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies, From the Storms defended and inclement Skies; Four Acres was the allotted Space of Ground, Fenc'd with a green Enclosure all around. Tall thriving Trees confessed the fruitful Mold: The reddening Apple ripens here to Gold, Here the blue Fig with luscious Juice overflows, With deeper Red the full Pomegranate glows, The Branch here bends beneath the weighty Pear, And verdant Olives flourish round the Year.

  

  Homer
  • Lying
  • Blue
  • Garden

• Now what is a wedding? Well, Webster's dictionary describes a wedding as the process of removing weeds from one's garden.

  

  Homer
  • Wedding
  • Dictionary
  • Removing

• Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present - love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure - the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Work
  • Family
  • Love

• This great purple butterfly, In the prison of my hands, Has a learning in his eye Not a poor fool understands.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Eye
  • Fool
  • Prison

• I fear I shall never be...good for anything in this world, but composing airs, building towers, forming gardens, collecting old Japan, and writing a journey to China or the Moon.

  

  William Thomas Beckford
  • World
  • Journey
  • Moon

• It's incredibly important to my spirits and mental health that I come back to Minnesota and not be surrounded constantly with Hollywood life. Spending time in the backyard, helping out in the garden, going out to the lakes, reminds me of what's important and allows me to realign myself.

  

  Kylie Bunbury
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• 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
  • Country
  • Earth
  • Nice

• It is true that a great deal of the rhetoric of the new atheism is often just the confessional rote of materialist fundamentalism (which, like all fundamentalisms, imagines that in fact it represents the side of reason and truth); but it is also true that the new atheism has sprung up in a garden of contending fundamentalisms.

  

  David Bentley
  • Reason
  • Imagine
  • Atheism

• If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.

  

  William Browne
  • Garden
  • Providence
  • Supplies

• A garden is a private world or it is nothing.

  

  Eleanor Perenyi
  • Garden
  • Private Worlds

• Plan your garden on paper. Mistakes made on paper won't cost you much in time or money.

  

  Elsa Bakalar
  • Money
  • Garden
  • Mistakes

• People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens.

  

  Dan Barker
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Suffering

• People say human nature is a very vague expression, people tend to say human nature is corruptible anyway and it comes from a theological point of view, goes back to the Garden of Eden, that there is always this corrupt gene waiting to be activated that we inherited from the very beginning. I don't believe in that theological excuse.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • People
  • Waiting
  • Excuse

• I don't paint butter dishes, doilies, or hummingbirds in my garden. It's more raw, I suppose. But it always creates a reaction.

  

  Adam West
  • Garden

• I love all the shoe shops in Covent Garden. Laura Lee Jewellery on Monmouth Street for delicate gold jewellery. Every time I get a part in an English movie, I buy myself a piece of jewellery from there.

  

  Caterina Murino
  • Gold
  • Shoes
  • Pieces

• If I really believed in Friedman's economic theory, then I'd be quite satisfied to spend the rest of my life with a garden hose shoved down my throat, being filled with custard by representatives of the people of China.

  

  Nigel Lawson
  • Economic
  • Theory
  • Satisfied

• The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.

  

  Rumi
  • World
  • Mind
  • Limits

• Democracy is fine in politics. It should stay there, and we need more of it. But its political virture is no reason to practice it in the garden.

  

  Allen Lacy
  • Political
  • Reason
  • Democracy

• In mathematical quarters, the regular division of the plane has been considered theoretically. ... [Mathematicians] have opened the gate leading to an extensive domain, but they have not entered this domain themselves. By their very nature they are more interested in the way in which the gate is opened than in the garden lying behind it.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Nature
  • Garden

• Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Mind
  • Struggle
  • Embrace

• The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.

  

  William Penn
  • Country
  • Earth
  • Wisdom

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