Best 1897 quotes in «garden quotes» category

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

A garden is the best alternative therapy.

A garden scheme should have a backbone - a central idea beautifully phrased.

A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells.

A garden, sir, wherein all rainbows and flowers were heaped together.

A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, unites in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.

A garden in winter is the absolute test of the true gardener.

A garden is a grand teacher... above all it teaches entire trust.

A garden is a symbol of man's arrogance, perverting nature to human ends.

A garden is half made when it is well planned.

A garden is not a picture, but a language.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna

A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb.

A good garden may have some weeds.

Agriculture probably required a far greater discipline than did any form of food collecting. Seeds had to be planted at certain seasons, some protection had to be given to the growing plants and animals, harvests had to be reaped, stored and divided. Thus, we might argue that it was neither leisure time nor a sedentary existence but the more rigorous demands associated with an agricultural way of life that led to great cultural changes.

Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far more than merely an aesthetic expression. And what is left of the earlier Mogul gardens in India suggests that their makers were acquainted with what lay behind the flowering of the Sufi movement in High Asia and so sought to add further dimensions to their garden scenes.

Ah! happy is the man whose early lot Hath made him master of a furnish'd cot; Who trains the vine that round his window grows, And after setting sun his garden hoes; Whose wattled pails his own enclosure shield, Who toils not daily in another's field.

A house though otherwise beautiful, yet if it hath no garden belonging to it, is more like a prison than a house.

A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.

Alan Chadwick's garden is a 'garden of the mind' as much as it is of the soil, and like all genuinely inspired creations it has the power to stir us to new dreams, to a new vision of what man and nature can do, together.

A late summer garden has a tranquility found no other time of the year.

Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.

All art is but imitation of nature.

All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being kicked in the backside for love of Miss Cunegonde, if you hadn't been sent before the Inquisition, if you hadn't traveled across America on foot, if you hadn't given a good sword thrust to the baron, if you hadn't lost all your sheep from the good land of Eldorado, you wouldn't be sitting here eating candied citron and pistachios. - That is very well put, said Candide, but we must cultivate our garden.

All communities, and low-income communities especially because of food insecurity and lack of access to healthy foods, need more farmers markets, need more community gardens and urban farms. It would be great if people living in communities had the tools and resources to grow food in their own backyard - community-based food systems.

All gardeners need to know when to accept something wonderful and unexpected, taking no credit except for letting it be.

All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.

All my hurts my garden spade can heal.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

All nature seems at work.

All nature wears one universal grin.

All of the worlds problems can be solved in the garden

All of us are called by something in this world that attracts us. And it doesn't matter what it is - you can be an engine mechanic or an aviator or you can be someone who loves their flower garden or the world of commerce or sailboats.

All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.

Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise.

All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know.

Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.

A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.

A lost sheep is, for all practical purposes a dead sheep. It is the admission that we are dead in our sins---that we have no power of ourselves either to save ourselves or to convince anyone else that we are worth saving. It is the recognition that our whole life is out of our hands and that if we ever live again, our life will be entirely the gift of some gracious shepherd. God finds us the desert of death (not in the garden of improvement) and in the power of Jesus' resurrection, he puts us on his shoulders rejoicing and brings us home.

Always explore your garden and go to the market before you decide what cook.

Although I usually think I know what I'm going to be writing about, what I'm going to say, most of the time it doesn't happen that way at all. At some point I get misled down a garden path, I get surprised by an idea that I hadn't anticipated getting, which is a little bit like being in a laboratory.

Although you may not stumble across a Martian in the garden, you might stumble across yourself. The day that happens, you'll probably also scream a little. And that'll be perfectly all right, because it's not every day you realize you're a living planet dweller on a little island in the universe.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

America has been conditioned to think of pasta as the never-ending pasta bowl and Olive Garden.

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

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact it was Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are full of "happy nuts." (p. 200)

And I don't think I want to meet this super-reaper." Nash stuffed his hands in his front pockets. "The garden variety's weird enough.