A Quotes
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“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.”
Source: Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur
“A garden is a grand teacher... above all it teaches entire trust.”
“A garden is a human creation. It has to be thought of first, wished into being, planned for like a child.”
“A garden is a kinetic work of art, not an object but a process, open-ended, biodegradable, nurturant, like all women's artistry. A garden is the best alternative therapy.”
“A garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature.”
Source: Creating a Garden for the Senses
“A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!”
“A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.”
Source: Rhapsody in Green: The Garden Wit and Wisdom of Beverley Nichols
“A garden is a private world or it is nothing.”
Source: Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden
“A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man's contribution to the community.”
“A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's outlook on life, his past experiences, his affections, his attempts, his mistakes and his successes.”
“A garden is a symbol of man's arrogance, perverting nature to human ends.”
“A garden is a thing of beauty and a job forever.”
“A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.”
Source: At Seventy: A Journal
“A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.”
Source: My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition
“A garden is beautiful only when it is filled with people; they determine its beauty”
Source: Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person's Guide to Being Selfless
“A garden is half made when it is well planned.”
“A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.”
Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations
“A garden is mainly ...a space around which interests can be accumulated.”
“A garden is man’s attempt to domesticate nature. And a man is man’s attempt to domesticate himself.”
Source: Pushing Gods Out
“A garden is never finished.”
“A garden is never so good as it will be next year.”
“A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.”
“A garden is the best alternative therapy.”
“A garden is the place millions of people go to touch the earth, to smell flowers - to use some of that fabled human brain power in the cause of better participating with natural processes in the place they call home. It serves as an art project, an organic produce market, a spiritual practice, a pharmacy. It offers ongoing lessons in ecology, biology, chemistry, geology, meteorology. Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time. It bestows on its practitioners a genuine sense of admiration for the plants, the soil, the sun, the water.”
“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.”
“A garden is where you can find a whole spectrum of life, birth and death”
Source: The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
“A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.”
Source: China Court
“A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna”
“A garden makes all our senses swim with pleasure.”
“A garden must be looked unto and dressed as the body.”
“A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy”
“A garden of soda bottles filled with water grew by his feet.”
Source: All the Crooked Saints
“A garden path,' write the landscape architects Charles W. Moore, William J. Mitchell, and William Turnbull, 'can become the thread of a plot, connecting moments and incidents into a narrative. The narrative structure might be a simple chain of events with a beginning, middle, and end. It might be embellished with diversions, digressions, and picaresque twists, be accompanied by parallel ways (subplots), or deceptively fork into blind alleys like the alternative scenerios explored in a detective novel.”
Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking
“A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise.”
“A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.”
“A garden scheme should have a backbone - a central idea beautifully phrased.”
“A garden should be in a constant state of fluid change, expansion, experiment, adventure; above all it should be an inquisitive, loving, but self-critical journey on the part of its owner.”
“A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells.”
Source: Wizard's Castle
“A garden should feel like a walk in the woods.”
“A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.”
Source: Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
“A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one’s personal history and that of one’s friends, interwoven with one’s tastes, preferences and character and constitutes a sort of unwritten autobiography.”
Source: The Garden That I Love
“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.”
Source: Les Misérables
“A garden was one of the few thing in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it then harvest it, offered a simple but enduring satisfaction. The sense of being the custodian of this small patch of earth offered a taste of freedom.”
Source: Long Walk To Freedom
“A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.”
Source: The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works
“A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all.”
Source: Garden open tomorrow
“A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all...much of the magic of the heather beds would vanish if, as we bent over them, there was no chance that we might hear a faint rustle among the blossoms, and find ourselves staring into a pair of sleepy green eyes.”
“A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb.”
Source: Meek Americans: & Other European Trifles
“A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art; whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing; and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
“A garden, sir, wherein all rainbows and flowers were heaped together.”
“A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.”
Source: Correspondence [contin.] 1795-1804; 1777; 1791. Letters of H.G. 1789. Address to public creditors. 1790. Vindication of funding system. 1791