Best garden & dying Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“But well-a-day, the gardener careless grew, The maids and fairies both were kept away, And in a drought the caterpillars threw Themselves upon the bud and every spray. God shield the stock! if Heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.”

Ifs Wells Death Dies Heaven Dying Grew Garden Fairy Shields Gardener Careless Bud Supplies Impermanence Maids Praying To God Spray Drought Caterpillars

Author:William Browne

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked higher than the pyramids; they had killed themselves over the failure to find a love none of us could ever be. In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.”

World Ends Used Girl Simple Accepting Dying Higher Drink Garden Sight Forests Torture Flaws Tire Refusal Pyramids Propeller

Book:The Virgin Suicides: A Novel

Source: The Virgin Suicides: A Novel

“The Garden En robe de parade. - Samain Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens, And she is dying piece-meal of a sort of emotional anaemia. And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth. In her is the end of breeding. Her boredom is exquisite and excessive. She would like some one to speak to her, And is almost afraid that I will commit that indiscretion.”

Ends Earth Speak Walks Poor Path Pieces Dying Emotional Wall Garden Rounds Commit Meals Boredom Infant Exquisite Silk Breeding Parades Robes Filthy Sturdy Anaemia

Author:Ezra Pound

“Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.”

Source: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Wilderness Studies

“We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a truth that can paralyze us with fear, or one that can energize us with impatience, with the desire to explore and experience, with the hope- nay, the iron-will!- to find a memory in every action. To be alive, under sunshine, or starlight, in weather fair or stormy. To dance with every step, be they through gardens of flowers or through deep snows.”

Moments Action Desire Memories Existence Steps Alive Dying Flower Fairs Garden Snow Weather Sunshine Iron Carpe Diem Impatience Every Step Carpe Stormy Starlight Iron Will

Author:R. A. Salvatore

“Nothing happened. And everything did. Your whole life you can be told something is wrong and so you believe it. Why should you question it? But then slowly seeds are planted inside of you, one by one, by a touch or a look or a day skateboarding in a park, and they start to burst out of old hulls shells and they start to sprout. And pretty soon there are so many of them. They are named Love and Trust and Kindness and Joy and Desire and Wonder and Spirit and Soulmate. They grow into a garden so dense and thick that it starts to invade your brain where the old things you were once told are dying.”

“A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.”

Death Loss Dying Failure Garden Series Triumph Gardening Gardener Impermanence Garden Love Spring Garden Spring Gardening

Book:At Seventy: A Journal

Source: At Seventy: A Journal

“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.”

Knows Mind Behinds Happened Dying Garden Awful Miserable Knees Regions Gates Twilight Forbidden Up And Down Palaces Darling Cliche Rags Adorable Juvenile

Book:The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated

Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated

“I finally knew... why Christ's prayer in the garden could not be granted. He had been seeded and birthed into human flesh. He was one of us. Once He had become mortal, He could not become immortal except by dying. That He prayed the prayer at all showed how human He was. That He knew it could not be granted showed his divinity; that He prayed it anyhow showed His mortality, His mortal love of life that His death made immortal.”

Humans Made Christ Prayer Dying Garden Flesh Mortals Granted Divinity Love Life Immortal Mortality

Author:Wendell Berry

“I want death to find me planting my cabbages.”

Want Death Nature Dying Garden Find Me Impermanence Cabbage

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“If a tree dies, plant another in its place.”

“Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel.”

Death Dies Justice Dying Garden Gardening Gardener Impermanence Spades

Author:Herbert V. Prochnow

“I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.”

Feels Death Passion Grows Dying Garden Spending Afternoon Delightful Impermanence Departing

Author:Emile Zola

“Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.”

Knows Earth Death Nature Dying Garden Breaths Smell Decay Scent Impermanence Desolation Regeneration Fertilizer Garden Love Compost

Book:Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside: With Poems and Ballads

Source: Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside: With Poems and Ballads

“There is a kind of immortality in every garden.”

Kind Death Time Dying Garden Immortality Impermanence

Author:Gladys Taber

“Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend.”

Ends Death Dying Garden Cherish Thorns Impermanence Ankles

Author:Robert Hunter

“Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for many weighty causes, that there are none more fit to bury our dead in than in our Gardens and Groves, where our Beds may be decked with verdant and fragrant flowers, Trees and Perennial Plants, the most natural and instructive Hieroglyphics of our expected Resurrection and Immortality.”

May Death Religion Causes Natural Tree Dying Flower Fit Bed Garden Blessed Plant Expected Immortality Savior Resurrection Impermanence Grove Oratory Hieroglyphics Fragrant Flowers

Author:John Evelyn

“In the garden the door is always open into the "holy" - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death.”

Whole Death Growth Creativity Creative Doors Mystery Dying Flower Birth Holy Garden Cycles Far Away Impermanence

Book:From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton

Source: From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton

“For we must bear in mind that the greater number of garden pictures known to us are taken from tombs.”

Mind Death Numbers Known Taken Greater Dying Design Bears Garden Tombs Impermanence

Author:Marie-Luise Gothein

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