Garden Quotes - Page 42

Neither a garden nor a gardener can be made in one year, nor in one generation even.

Your thoughts are like the seeds you plant in your garden. Your beliefs are like the soil in which you plant these seeds.

The sunlight on the garden Hardens and grows cold, We cannot cage the minute Within its nets of gold

The world has been tragic since the day Adam and Eve sinned in the garden. From that moment murder, mayhem and war entered the scene and we are still suffering the consequences of a man-driven, self-serving, short-sighted environment.

The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee...gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees, I grew up as a part of his garden.

I had a ton of animals; I had a goat growing up, a bunch of rabbits, a vegetable garden.

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens.

I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.

I wouldn't trust Newcastle's back five to protect my garden gnomes from squirrels.

I want to thank all the fans for their support over the years. Keep supporting the Knicks, we're moving in the right direction here and we will be exciting to watch and competing against the best in the NBA. Come back to the Garden for those exciting games.

The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light.

When a man plants a tree, he plants himself.

We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.

What Tarquin the Proud said in his garden with the poppy blooms was understood by the son but not by the messenger.

We may think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it's our garden that is really nurturing us.

Is a park any better than a coal mine? What's a mountain got that a slag pile hasn't? What would you rather have in your garden--an almond tree or an oil well?

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.

In a rock garden we foster a little patch of the wilderness that stands to us for freedom.

If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.

[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.

In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture-it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.

I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.

Some people like to garden, some people like motorcycle riding... my hobby is winning.