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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.

Flowers speak to us if we listen. Appreciating the blossom in hand or pausing in the garden to admire the beauty quiets our outer selves till we hear something new, something we did not hear before - the still, small voice of Nature herself.

Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.

For all its prestige, its fabulous views, its indoor pool, and its lovely garden, 24 Sussex is more like an old hotel than a modern home.

For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

For how tiny the world, This ant's egg-and the sky!

For me, a garden is peace of mind. It immediately takes my mind off the thing I'm puzzling about in my work and gives me repose.

For more than thirty years, Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd have been gardening with extraordinary, indeed legendary, results. Part memoir, part omnium-gatherum of horticultural wisdom and practical advice, Our Life in Gardens is at once literate, learned, sensible, and, often, sheer luscious poetry. There are delights to be sampled on every page. From a cultivated life, they have brought forth, once again, a cultivated book.

For optimal health, we need body and spirit, exercise (ming) and meditation, awareness of the inner world and the outer. In other words, health requires balance and moderation. The goal of qigong may be summarized as xing ming shuang xiu,spirit and body equally refined and cultivated. Cultivate your whole being, as you would cultivate a garden with attention, care, and even love.

For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!

For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision" measurement of gravity. The years of experience building things taught me skills that were directly applicable to the construction of the pendulum. Twenty-five years later, I was to develop a refined version of this measurement using laser-cooled atoms in an atomic fountain interferometer.

For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out of glens and gardens of the Muses, and they bring them as bees do honey, flying like the bees? And what they say is true, for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him. So long as he has this in his possession, no man is able to make poetry or to chant in prophecy.

For we must bear in mind that the greater number of garden pictures known to us are taken from tombs.

'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to the executives and stockholders of various businesses who will continue to profit from, for example, 'The Garden Party,' while the descendants of Katherine Mansfield will not.

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.

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 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 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.

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

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.

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...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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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