Garden Quotes - Page 45

My cat did that the other day when he came in from the garden.

...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being.

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.

It is impossible for any culture to be sound and healthy without a proper respect and proper regard for the soil.

He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises crabs and choke pears, deserves to lose the respect of all sensible men.

If the weeds are pulled out of the garden too soon, the too shallow roots of the plants developing around it get pulled up with the weed also. Time is what is needed before criticism can be useful.

In friendship's fragrant garden, There are flowers of every hue. Each with its own fair beauty And its gift of joy for you. Friendship's Garden If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather.

The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.

Yoga adds years to your life and life to your years.

The unattended garden will soon be overrun with weeds; the heart that fails to cultivate truth and root out error will shortly be a theological wilderness.

Is 'Garden State' the next 'Citizen Kane'? Of course not. I'd like to think we aimed a little higher than that, frankly.

Every garden presents innumerable fascinating problems.

You're damn right I do. I'm in Madison Square Garden getting the s*** knocked out of me

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.

A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.

yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind, Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the torn petals strew the garden plot; And there's but common greenness after that.

If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.

The spirits of the air live on the smells Of fruit; and joy, with pinions light, roves round The gardens, or sits singing in the trees.

I want to play a show at Madison Square Garden in New York, which is where the New York Knicks play. That's what I want.

A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us.

O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light and dark, mute though spoken, By Thy wide grace show me Thy narrow gate.

A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.

Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden.

My Lolita remarked: "You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own"; and it struck me, as my automaton knees went up and down, that I simply did not know a thing about my darling's mind and that quite possibly, behind the awful juvenile cliches, there was in her a garden and a twilight, and a palace gate - dim and adorable regions which happened to be lucidly and absolutely forbidden to me, in my polluted rags and miserable convulsions.