Top 475 Gardens Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

No doubt these rocky islands have suggested the idea worked out in gardens, and they have been well imitated.

I have learnt that gardens are like happiness: you cannot pursue them as an absolute thing or moment.

Let's all sign petitions to make Earthships and organic home gardens the normality.

When I'm in London, I love to visit Kensington gardens and just sit in the park and read a good book.

Right on to the New Period vineyard arbors were the centre and chief ornament of all gardens.

Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.

It is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles.

Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth.

Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.

[On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit. ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if you cultivate delight.

Before my parents came to England from Calcutta in the 1970s, they used to go to games at Eden Gardens.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

I am a huge fan of Jessica Lange. I think her performance in Grey Gardens is amazing.

Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend.

In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Koishikawa Korakuen Garden - one of Tokyo's oldest Japanese gardens, and one of the best spots for viewing the cherry blossoms.

I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.

Somewhere, a long way away, people are doing sensible things like mowing lawns and digging gardens.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

I've been going around London obsessing about people's gardens; I take pictures on my BlackBerry.

Of course I miss the big gardens we had at our country house but it became very expensive to run we couldn't afford it.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.

What I love about French gardens is the combination of formal elegance and intellectual questioning.

The Ranelagh Gardens in Chelsea provide plenty of opportunities to walk, think and relax.

When the time came for me to work with larger spaces, I conceived them as gardens, not as sites with objects but as relationships to a whole.

I got involved in Gateway National Park and just became fascinated with gardens.

When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.

The old internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens over which Google's crawlers can't climb.

Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.

Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.

People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

The fellow who tends the greenhouse gardens? Trust me, Lady, you'd let him stake your tomatoes.

It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.

There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast! For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself.

There's a certain vibe at Eden Gardens... Playing in front of 60,000 people is special and it makes a massive difference.

If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me; For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That's why I have to have apartments with gardens.

And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure.

I grew up around the Luxembourg Gardens, so I guess that is my best memory.

When I lived in Delhi, I used to visit the Lodhi Gardens and feed the pigeons, crows, and ducks there.

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

That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ. And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it.

Rich people (in Australia) have swimming pools in their gardens but, at least, they do swim in them.

The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light.

Many gardens are hijacked by their plants and end up looking like a room overstuffed with furniture.

Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.

If we don't consciously plant the seeds of what we want in the gardens of our minds we'll end up with weeds.

We know that urban farms require less fuel for tractors and transport, but community gardens don't plant themselves.

In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.

Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her did not agree. In a field by the river my love and I did stand, And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand. She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs; But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.

Gardens are enclosed areas in which plants and arts meet. They form 'cultures' in an uncompromised sense of the word.

Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.

Jack Nicholson and I have been friends ever since we met while doing 'The King of Marvin Gardens.'