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Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them.

From 50 centuries, we can learn about the close relationship between garden design and urban design, because both arts involve the composition of buildings with paving, landform, water, vegetation and climate.

From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return.

From as young as I can remember, I always wanted to be a singer... My mum taught me 'Going Down the Garden to Eat Worms' for a competition when I was about 4.

From December to March, there are for many of us three gardens - the garden outdoors, the garden of pots and bowls in the house, and the garden of the mind's eye.

From the gardener's point of view, November can be the worst month to be faced: Nature is winding things down, the air is cold, skies are gray, but usually the final mark of punctuation to the year as yet to arrive - the snow; snow that covers all in the garden and marks a mind-set for the end of a year's activity. There is little to do outside except to wait for longer days in the new year and the joys of coming holidays.

Full of troubles, the mind is still the only Garden of Delight.

funny how ready people are to believe that counseling, which even when voluntary takes years to modify garden-variety neuroses, can work wonders in months with resistant patients who hate each other.

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

Gardening is the best therapy in the world.

Gardens are our link with the divine.

Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.

Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.

Gardening is about communication, relationships, routines and life-enrichment. Gardens are places that connect us to the seasons and the life cycle. They're a vehicle for talking about esoteric and - as far as TV goes - alien topics such as beauty and fulfilment.

Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.

Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe.

Gardening is not a rational act.

Gardening requires lots of water... most of it in the form of perspiration.

Garden: One of a vast number of free outdoor restaurants operated by charity-minded amateurs in an effort to provide healthful, balanced meals for insects, birds and animals.

Gardens can be sharp and spiky as well as rose-embowered and honeysuckle-twined: there are corners and settings where thistles are not such an asinine taste after all.

Gardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity.

Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child.

Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history.

Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite - it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life.

Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls?

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

Gardens do offer a temporal tableau and certainly mean differently in different eras and indeed geographies (think of the formal gardens in France).

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

Gardening...demands a certain attitude. It is necessary to accept the dynamism of vegetation with serenity.

Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.

Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings.

Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor's.

Gardening has increased, community gardens have increased significantly. There are 50 percent more community gardens right here in Washington DC.

Gardening is like everything else in life, you get out of it as much as you put in. No one can make a garden by buying a few packets of seeds or doing an afternoon's weeding. You must love it, and then your love will be repaid a thousandfold, as every gardener knows.

Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight.

Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.

Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

God does not lie in our collective past, God lies in our collective future; the Garden of Eden is tomorrow, not yetsterday; the Golden Age lies down the road, not up it.

God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!

God is entirely and personally present in the wilderness, in the garden, in the field.

God is a God who has not given up on His people. If He wanted to give up, He would have given up back in the Garden of Eden.

Good bones are important, so it is wise to go slowly and get your plan right before launching into a vital project.

God wants nothing from you but the gift of a peaceful heart.

Going to the Huntington gardens and libraries was radically important for me. They have one of the best collections of 18th- and 19th-century British portraiture that you can imagine in Southern California. One doesn't think about Southern California as being the capital of great art.