Garden Quotes - Page 7

A late summer garden has a tranquility found no other time of the year.

Really, what [sea] ice does is it acts like a garden. … Losing that ice is like losing the soil in a garden.

I danced with the London Festival at Covent Garden. I'm a ballerina by trade; I'm a ballerina who sings by the way.

Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves.

He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world with a passion for flowers in his soul.

How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.

In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art--the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonard's canvases--beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and lawless as the earth had been eons before man had one single coherent thought in his head or wrote codes of conduct on tablets of clay. Beauty was a Savage Garden.

One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards.

Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in a garden filled with thousands of the same yellow flower, BUT they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple.

Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.

The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.

Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.

I've read all the books but one Only remains sacred: this Volume of wonders, open Always before my eyes.

The trouble is, you cannot grow just one zucchini. Minutes after you plant a single seed, hundreds of zucchini will barge out of the ground and sprawl around the garden, menacing the other vegetables. At night, you will be able to hear the ground quake as more and more zucchinis erupt.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

As a married woman, I know perfectly well what six or eight inches looks like, so it's easy to make a good estimate. This mental measurement makes planting time much more interesting than it might be otherwise.

My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.

Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.

A garden is never so good as it will be next year.

The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in one hand and a cold drink in the other, tell somebody else where to dig.