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Quotes About Garden

The land is like the garden of Eden before them," wrote the author of Joel, "but after them a desolate wilderness.
~ Roderick Nash
garden Materials needed Paper, felt-tip pens, pencils, ballpoint pens. Instructions The therapist leads the visualisation: Get into a comfortable position and close your eyes if you want to. Come with me. We are going into the garden. (PAUSE) It is morning in the middle of winter. (PAUSE) Put warm clothes on. (PAUSE) Coat. (PAUSE) Boots. (
~ Roger Day
I like the posture, but not the yoga. I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but not the garden, the moment but not the dream. Quiet, my love. Be still. I am sleeping.
~ Roman Payne
My mind is not like a neat and tidy garden; it is a vast and untidy wilderness, full of irrelevancies, but with lots of places to wander and get lost.
~ Roopa Farooki
There was sadness in everything—in the room, in the ringing bird-calls from the garden, in the lit, golden lawn beyond the window, with its single miraculous cherry-tree breaking in immaculate blossom and tossing long foamy sprays against the sky. She was sad to the verge of tears, and yet the sorrow was rich—a suffocating joy.
~ Rosamond Lehmann
What a happy woman I am, living in a garden, with books, babies, birds and flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy them. Sometimes I feel as if I were blest above all my fellows in being able to find happiness so easily." (Quoted from Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim)
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
Summer meant the garden. It meant roses, hollyhocks, larkspur, geraniums. It meant birds. It meant long days and starry nights.
~ Luanne Rice
Her favorite patch was the least showy: the herb garden. A raised stone circle, no bigger than a beach umbrella, was filled with rosemary, sage, wild thyme, mint, lemon verbena, lavender, and burnet.
~ Luanne Rice
They lingered in the old gardens until twilight, sweet as dusk in Eden must have been" "There was nobody else for me but you. I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
~ Luis Borges
I enjoy cooking. It's therapy for me. Louise's therapy is her rose garden. You may note, Polly, that we don't have any roses.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Le gusta este jardín, que es suyo? ¡Evite que sus hijos lo destruyan!
~ Malcolm Lowry
Madness suddenly ceases to be a refuge and becomes incarnate in the shattering sky and all his surroundings in the presence of which reason, already struck dumb, can only bow the head. Does the madman find solace at such moments, as his thoughts like cannonballs crash through his brain, in the exquisite beauty of the madhouse garden?
~ Malcolm Lowry
Only when your love of roses is greater than your fear of thorns can you grow a beautiful garden.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.
~ Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
When a husband stops paying attention to the garden, he's thinking of pulling up roots.
~ Amy Tan
The dogs bark at night. The garden smells of honeysuckle in the summer, of wet leaves in the winter. One hears the whistle of the small train from and to Paris. It is a train which looks ancient, as if it were still carrying the personages of Proust's novels to dine in the country.
~ Anais Nin
One of the properties belonged to Madame du Barry. During the revolution her lover was guillotined and his head thrown over the ivy-covered wall into her garden. This is now the property of Coty.
~ Anais Nin
Le cÅ"ur me battait fort en poussant la barrière du jardin.
~ Andre Gide
The garden was planted four hundred years ago, when the surrounding area was poplar. The woman makes a sweeping gesture, and he nods in appreciation. And now, Less says, it's unpoplar.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers.
~ Samuel Johnson
Toleration is a herb of spontaneous growth in the Soil of Indifference; but the weed has none of the virtues of the medicinal plant, reared by Humility in the Garden of Zeal.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Once there was a girl named Riley, the story began. Her heart was a secret garden, its stone walls cracked and weathered. And it was hungry. p160
~ Scott Westerfeld
It didn't even help that I had a man watching the house.I suppose he can be forgiven for not thinking Mary Pearson could be a threat." "I knew about him," Rebecca replied. "I found him hiding in the garden this morning. I took him some cookies." Rupert laughed. "Did you? How embarrassing for him, but that was probably my mother's spy.Mine would have been better hidden!
~ Johanna Lindsey