Garden Quotes - Page 26

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

In our everyday garden grow the rosemary, juniper, ferns and plane trees, perfectly tangible and visible. For these plants that have an illusory relationship with us, which in no way alters their existentiality, we are merely an event, an accident, and our presence, which seems so solid, laden with gravity, is to them no more than a momentary void in motion through the air. Reality is a quality that belongs to them, and we can exercise no rights over it.

I like gardening. I'm really a nature man. I spend as much time as I can in nature. I feel really safe there.

I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.

Designing a landscape is about connecting the body, soul and mind to the land itself.

My pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard.

The garden [of Eden] is the realm of pure beauty from which man is expelled when he becomes interested in ethics, in the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The return into paradise, the homecoming, depends on him penetrating the veils of morality to glimpse again the lineaments of lost beauty.

I work like a gardener.

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained, as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts of useful utensils, and so on, any regularity that has an air of constraint is [to be] avoided as much as possible. That is why the English taste in gardens, or the baroque taste in furniture, carries the imagination's freedom very far, even to the verge of the grotesque, because it is precisely this divorce from any constraint of a rule that the case is posited where taste can show its greatest perfection in designs made by the imagination.

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree.

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.

We should not feel separate from nature, we are a part of it. We need to cover our footprints.

Carry your groceries, garden, and do other activities that keep you moving. You will add more years to your life and more life to your years.

I am in love with the green earth.

I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.

A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.

The Rulers of Russia, then, are Jewish Politicians, and they are applying to the world the doctrine of Karl Marx (Mordecai). Marx, was a clear and lucid Talmudist...full of that old Hebrew (sic) materialism which ever dreams of a paradise on earth and always rejects the hope held out of the chance of a Garden of Eden after Death.

Should it not be remembered that in setting a garden we are painting a picture?

If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.

Let us be guardians, not gardeners

Beware of prejudice; light is good in whatsoever lamp it is burning; a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

I know a little garden close Set thick with lily and red rose, Where I would wander if I might From dewy dawn to dewy night. And have one with me wandering.