Top 1200 Japanese Gardens Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

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

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

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

The difference between the Japanese and the American is summed up in their opposite reactions to the proverb (popular in both nations), "A rolling stone gathers no moss." Epidemiologist S. Leonard Syme observes that to the Japanese, moss is exquisite and valued; a stone is enhanced by moss; hence a person who keeps moving and changing never acquires the beauty and benefits of stability. To Americans, the proverb is an admonition to keep rolling, to keep from being covered with clinging attachments.

Gardens are the result of a collaboration between art and nature.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I haven't really got a green thumb, but I love gardens and their architecture.

You can trace the entire history of Britain by looking at gardens.

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

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

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

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

My husband is half Japanese and half white European-American, and our son is half Korean, quarter Japanese, and a quarter white European-American.

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

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

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

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

[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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away.

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

Busch Gardens was my theme park; it was where I went on my day off from school.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Libraries Are Neccessary Gardens, Unsurpassed At Growing Excitement

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

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

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.

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