Garden Quotes - Page 3

The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.

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

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.

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

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life.

I'm for a multi-racial world in which each race keeps to itself, in harmony with the other races. Like in a garden, you have flowerbeds of roses and flowerbeds of carnations and irises and different other flowers. They don't intermarry. They stay separate, and each one has its beauty. . . . I'm against colonialism for the reason that colonialism infects the master as well as the slave. It even infects the master more.

My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

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

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.

Sometimes I feel like I’m actually on the wrong planet. It’s great when I’m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, ‘What the hell am I doing here?

I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.

Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating.

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

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

What I need most of all is color, always, always.

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky.

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

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.