Best essentials & garden Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“"We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d'or or d'argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms."”

Ifs May Art Reason Would Be Cry Fields Arms Please Essentials Garden Ancient Spread Noble Enthusiasm Lions Gardening Eagles Lilies

Author:Abraham Cowley

“I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small seed To grow to greenness and renown: And then some day you'll pass my way, See gold and crimson, bell and star, And catch my garden's soul, and say: "How sweet these cottage gardens are!"”

Way Soul Shows Earth Stars Grows Water Sweet Essentials Garden Gold Plant Seeds My Way Brown Weed Bells Gardening Inches Vow Cottages Crimson Renown

Author:E. Nesbit

“My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.”

Hands Minutes Essentials Garden Standing Grandmother Gardening Fifteen My Grandmother

Book:No nature: new and selected poems

Source: No nature: new and selected poems

“Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.”

Men Mean Use One Thing Essentials Garden Gardening Gardener

Book:Eccentric Spaces

Source: Eccentric Spaces

“I have found, through years of practice, that people garden in order to make something grow; to interact with nature; to share, to find sanctuary, to heal, to honor the earth, to leave a mark. Through gardening, we feel whole as we make our personal work of art upon our land.”

Source: The Inward Garden: Creating a Place of Beauty and Meaning

“To dwell is to garden.”

House Essentials Garden Gardening

Author:Martin Heidegger

“It's absolutely essential for every generation to capture that social responsibility. Injustice grows like weeds. The injustices of the world are like weeds, and if you do nothing they'll choke your whole garden, man.”

Ifs Men World Whole Social Grows Responsibility Generations Essentials Garden Injustice Weed Capture Social Responsibility Choke

Author:Luis Valdez

“I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.”

Knows Should Essentials Garden Gardening

Author:Voltaire

“Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.”

Humans Pleasure Essentials Garden Gardening Garden Love Inspirational Gardening Horticulture

Author:Francis Bacon

“As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.”

Men Running Nature Essentials Garden Weed Gardening Gardener Herbs

Author:Francis Bacon

“I should like to enflame the whole world with my taste for gardening. There is no virtue that I would not attribute to the man who lives to project and execute gardens.”

Men World Should Whole Virtue He Man Taste Essentials Projects Garden Whole World Attributes Gardening

Author:Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne

“Jesus Christ was the only one capable of performing the magnificent Atonement because He was the only perfect man and the Only Begotten Son of God the Father. He received His commission for this essential work from His Father before the world was established. His perfect mortal life devoid of sin, the shedding of His blood, His suffering in the garden and upon the cross, His voluntary death, and the Resurrection of His body from the tomb made possible a full Atonement for people of every generation and time.”

“The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.”

Knows Giving Wish Lessons Essentials Garden Endure Gardening Garden Love Gardening And God Jekyll

Book:Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur

Source: Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur

“It is always exciting to open the door and go out into the garden for the first time on any day.”

Firsts Doors Essentials First Time Garden Exciting Gardening

Author:Marion Dudley Cran

“As the biocentric view suggests, the garden prospers when control is balanced by equal measures of humility and benevolence. A balance is struck. Control, servitude, respect, imagination, pragmatism, an ecological conscience, compliance, and a certain measure of mysticism and altruism, all meld together to provide nurturance.”

Source: Why We Garden: Cultivating a Sense of Place

“Surely ruminating and lolling, squandering slivers of time as you ponder on this or that plant; perching about the place on seats chosen for their essential and individual quality, are other whole aspects of being a gardener. Why shouldn't we? We sit in other people's gardens, why not in our own.”

People Whole Individual Quality Essentials Aspect Garden Plant Individuality Chosen Seats Why Not Gardener Pondering Squandering

Author:Mirabel Osler

“I look back with gladness to the day when I found the path to the land of heart's desire, and thank Fate ceaselessly with a loud voice that she did not permit the town to sap all the years away while the heart was turning to wind-voices and flower-faces and the hands of kindly earth.”

Source: The Garden of Ignorance: The Experiences of a Woman in a Garden

“To Nature the dweller in the Nile valley linked all that was dear to him: his happiest fetes, poetry, and love - all were bound up with the garden and its products, especially flowers. Few Oriental nations can think of a festival without flowers, but nowhere are they so completely a part of human life, and so essential, as in [Ancient] Egypt.”

Thinking Life Humans Nations Nature Flower Products Essentials Garden And Love Bounds Dear Ancient Human Life Valleys Egypt Linked Festivals Ancient Egypt Dwellers Nile

Author:Marie-Luise Gothein

“We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.”

Peace Essentials Garden Activism Golden Gardening Hippie Special Interests Stardust

Author:Joni Mitchell

“Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart.”

Thinking Men Giving Heart Real Passion Essentials Garden Occupation Gardening Gardener Insatiable

Book:The Gardener's Year

Source: The Gardener's Year

“A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise.”

Faith Song Hope Expression Essentials Garden Praise Gardening Embodiment

Author:Russell Page

“Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.”

Giving Essentials Garden Proportion Gardening Gardener Horticulture Great Garden

Book:Plant Dreaming Deep: A Journal

Source: Plant Dreaming Deep: A Journal

“The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.”

Looks Done Funny Essentials Garden Satisfied Optimistic Gardening Gardener Something Better Enterprising

Author:Vita Sackville-West

“This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.”

Earth Essentials Garden Tasks Metaphor Gardening

Book:Of Gravity & Angels

Source: Of Gravity & Angels

“Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.”

Men Doe Nature Building Wall Essentials Garden Tools Gardening Chaotic

Author:Robert Frost

“Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green glade ... Such was that happy garden-state.”

World Mind Kind Doe Made States Happiness Pleasure Sea Essentials Ocean Garden Green Gardening Other Worlds Resemblance Transcending Garden State

Book:To His Coy Mistress

Source: To His Coy Mistress

“When your garden is finished I hope it will be more beautiful that you anticipated, require less care than you expected, and have cost only a little more than you had planned.”

Littles Care Beautiful Hope Cost Essentials Garden Finished Expected Gardening

Author:Thomas Church

“The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.”

Men World Feels Done He Man Essentials Garden Gardening Garden Love Horticulture Planting A Garden

Book:My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

“Gardening is a humbling experience.”

Essentials Garden Experience Gardening Humbling Humbling Experiences

Book:Martha Stewart's gardening, month by month

Source: Martha Stewart's gardening, month by month

“Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.”

Interest Imagination Half Exercise Essentials Garden Constant Gardening Gardener Horticulture

Author:Alice Morse Earle

“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.”

Mind May Shows Home Turns Results Grace Strength Creatures Essentials Fairs Garden Chiefs Attractive Wheels Gardening Elegance Polished Spades Compost

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream ... For a garden is Arcady brought home. It is man's bit of gaudy make-believe - his well-disguised fiction of an unvexed Paradise ... a world where gayety knows no eclipse and winter and rough weather are held at bay.”

“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.”

Should Self States Time Change Journey Adventure Essentials Garden Constant Critical Experiments Owners Gardening Expansion Fluid Inquisitive

Author:H. E. Bates

“He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.”

Source: The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.”

Work Like You Essentials Garden Gardening Beans Stalking Builder Like Yourself

Book:The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

“How often I admire the taste shown in the garden which, within the house, may be indifferent. Here is an art which is today probably more perfect than at any previous time, one which does not break with the past, while it brings a sense of comely order, and a radiant beauty, to cottage and manor alike.”

May Doe Art Today Past Order House Perfect Beauty Break Taste Essentials Garden Admire Indifference Admiration Gardening Indifferent Radiant Cottages Radiant Beauty

Author:William Rothenstein

“In green old gardens, hidden away From sight of revel and sound of strife, Here I have leisure to breathe and move, And to do my work in a nobler way; To sing my songs, and to say my say; To Dream my dreams, and to love my love; To hold my faith, and to live my life. Making the most of its shadowy day.”

Way Life Dream Moving Faith Song Sound Essentials Garden Sight Green Breathe Leisure Gardening Strife Living My Life

Author:Violet Fane

“The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation.”

Source: My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

“To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.”

Source: My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

“How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.”

Passion Existence Essentials Fairs Garden Encouragement Gardening Fairness Toil

Book:Sybil, Or, The Two Nations

Source: Sybil, Or, The Two Nations

“What do we look for as reward? Some little sounds, and scents, and scenes A small hand darting strawberry-ward A woman's aprons full of greens. The sense that we have brought to birth Out of the cold and heavy soil, The blessed fruits and flowers of earth Is large reward for our toil.”

Looks Littles Hands Earth Desire Sound Flower Cold Birth Scene Essentials Garden Blessed Fruit Rewards Heavy Soil Gardening Scent Toil Strawberries Aprons Small Hands

Author:Ruth Pitter

“Yes, in the poor man's garden grow Far more than herbs and flowers - Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind, And Joy for weary hours.”

Source: Birds and flowers and other country things [in verse].

“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....

“To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment.”

Essentials Judgment Garden Optimism Gardening Inspirational Gardening

Author:Eleanor Perenyi

“That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments - a soap opera growing out of the ground. I'd forgotten that tremolo of expectation produced by a tiny forest of sprouts.”

Home Earth Growing Development Essentials Expectations Garden Tragedy Surprise Forgotten Boring Tiny Circles Forests Opera Gardening Soap Soap Operas Sprouts

Author:Paul Fleischman

“Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.”

Life Humans Nature Pleasure Essentials Diversity Garden Impulse Abundance Gardening Innate

Author:E. O. Wilson

“One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.”

Desire Essentials Garden Gardening Anticipation Delightful Gardener Delightful Things

Author:W. E. Johns

“The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is a divine drug. He enters into death yearly, and comes back rejoicing. He has seen the light lie down in the dung heap, and rise again in the corn.”

Men Hands Light Lying Born Tree Divine He Man Drug Essentials Garden Soil Rejoice Gardening Farming Corn Gardener Sprouts

Book:Farming: A Hand Book

Source: Farming: A Hand Book

“How much the making of a garden, no matter how small, adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the arts and the science can know.”

Knows Life Art Matter Joy Practice Essentials Garden Add Gardening Joy Of Living

Author:Ernest Henry Wilson

“A garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature.”

Humans Mother Song Human Beings Essentials Garden Gardening Mother Nature Flowers And Gardens Duets

Book:Creating a Garden for the Senses

Source: Creating a Garden for the Senses

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