Garden Quotes - Page 59

Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child.

Good gardening is very simple, really. You just have to learn to think like a plant.

Imagine that half the world is hidden from you. Half of the person sitting across from you has never been appreciated, half of the garden has never been seen or smelled, half of your own life has never been truly witnessed and appraised.

Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.

I suppose that for most people one of the darker joys of gardening is that once you've got started it's not at all hard to find someone who knows a little bit less than you.

I cannot walk into our garden without constantly being reminded of the friends who have shared their plants.

Change the food in the schools and we can influence how children think. Change the curriculum and teach them how to garden and how to cook and we can show that growing food and cooking and eating together give lasting richness, meaning, and beauty to our lives.

That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.

There is no gardening without humility

I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.

Complete garbage. It's like Garden State, but in outer space.

Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.

Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows, And most attractive, is the fair result Of thought, the creature of a polished mind.

But the sea which no one tends is also a garden

Learn to cultivate your own garden.

On the terrace of the Pepiniere, the 150 pupils of the Institut Chemique talk chemistry as they leave the auditoria and the laboratory. The echoes of the magnificent public garden of the city of Nancy make the words reverberate; coupling, condensation, grignardization. Moreover, their clothes stay impregnated with strong and characteristic odours; we follow the initiates of Hermes by their scent. In such an environment, how is it possible not to be productive?

We know that urban farms require less fuel for tractors and transport, but community gardens don't plant themselves.

I am a gardener of infinite time.

If we don't consciously plant the seeds of what we want in the gardens of our minds we'll end up with weeds.

Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.

A garden is where you can find a whole spectrum of life, birth and death

Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.

A few moments of silence may be all the meditation we need at times. Our homes could have a little space for withdrawal and quiet, and even a small garden could offer some distance from noise.

Memories do not change, and change is the law of existence. If our dead, the closest, the most beloved, were to return to us after a long absence and instead of the old, familiar trees were to find in our souls English gardens and stone walls - that is to say, other loves, other tastes, other interests, they would gaze upon us sadly and tenderly for a moment, wiping away their tears, and then return to their tombs to rest.

Wise words are like seeds. The more you scatter them, the more they will grow into infinite gardens of knowledge.