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Quotes About Garden

The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.
~ Charlotte Smith
If you look only as Genesis as an allegory, you have a major problem, because if it's an allegory, then tell me who our ancestor was? If Abraham was real, then from Abraham if Adam isn't real, if it's just an allegory, it's just a story, then what's the real Adam who really fell in a garden and really sinned? Where did we come from?
~ Ken Ham
I just like to sit and admire my garden; it's so well kept by my gardener and my girlfriend.
~ Anton du Beke
Rather go out of the way! Flee into concealment! And have your masks and your ruses, that ye may be mistaken for what you are, or somewhat feared! And pray, don't forget the garden, the garden with golden trellis-work! And have people around you who are as a garden—or as music on the waters at eventide, when already the day becomes a memory. Choose the GOOD solitude, the free, wanton, lightsome solitude, which also gives you the right still to remain good in any sense whatsoever!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
As Eden was the Paradise of Creation, Mary is the Paradise of the Incarnation, and in her as a Garden were celebrated the first nuptials of God and man.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Hedgehogs need somewhere to hibernate through the winter, but also a place that they can lie out at during the day. So have a few places around your garden that are a bit wild, maybe a log pile, potentially even a hedgehog home, all of which are going to be prime real estate for one of these little guys.
~ Steve Backshall
And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
The Botanischer Garten in Berlin has one of Europe's finer winter trails, leading in careful order from glasshouses devoted to African-American and Australian desert species, through a fine collection of tropical plants, and on to the orchid house.
~ John Burnside
I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for me, although by the time August rolls around and my roses have black spot, I need the break winter provides.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it.
~ Bruce Lipton
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
Gnomes are supposed to be good luck in a garden, protecting against pests and diseases. A mythic gatekeeper, in the way a Kitchen Witch is.
~ Kelly Asbury
What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?
~ Roy Rogers
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.
~ George Balanchine
Es mediodía. El viento duerme, cargado de su propia fragancia, en el jardín.
~ Rosario Castellanos
There are fairies at the bottom of our garden!
~ Rose Fyleman
When Gigi woke me in the morning, my first thought wasn't about magic, or about Rhys or Shawn, or how much my romantic troubles were tied up in the mysteries of Bluestone Hill, or what that had to do with the ghosts, if anything. It was about my garden.
~ Rosemary Clement-Moore
What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?
~ Roy Rogers
There are many gods . . . gods of beauty and magic, gods of the garden, gods in our own backyards, but we go off to foreign countries to find new ones, we reach to the stars to find new ones--. . . . The god of the church is a jealous god; he cannot live in peace with other gods.
~ Rudolfo Anaya
Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing: -"Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing:—"Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade...
~ Rudyard Kipling
The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruit other than sorrow and joy.
~ Rumi
Wenn du einen Garten und eine Bibliothek hast, wird Dir an nichts fehlen.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.
~ Margaret Atwood