“I thought I had finished with romantic adventures, but half-way through life and well past the age for losing one's heart, I was suddenly swept off my feet by a new love, a passionate, tyrannical, all-absorbing emotion: the love of a garden.” WayWellsHeartAgePastEmotionHalfFeetAdventureLosingGardenPassionateFinishedGardeningAbsorbingHalf Way Book:The Glory of the Garden Source: The Glory of the Garden
“There is no "End" to be written, neither can you, like an architect, engrave in stone the day the garden was finished. A painter can frame his picture, a composer can notate his coda, but a garden is always on the move.” EndsMovingWrittenGardenStonesFinishedPainterArchitectComposerEngraveGarden Design Book:A Gentle Plea for Chaos Source: A Gentle Plea for Chaos
“Was it all in my head? A Lunar trick?” Her stomach twisted. “No.” She shook her head, fervently. How to explain that she hadn’t had the gift before? That she couldn’t have used it against him? “I would never lie—” The words faded. She had lied. Everything he knew about her had been a lie. “I’m so sorry,” she finished, the words falling lamely in the open air. Kai peeled his eyes away, finding some place of resignation off in the glistening garden. “You’re even more painful to look at than she is.” LooksEyeUsedLyingFallAirFindingsGardenSorryPainfulFinishedTricksHis EyesStomachTwistedLiedResignationFadedNever LieI'm So SorryPrince Kai Author:Marissa Meyer
“Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its composition, it’s appearance, to human design and effort, human conventions and convenience, and the human pursuit of that elusive, indefinable harmony that we call beauty. It has a life of its own, an intricate, willful, secret life, as any gardener knows. It is only the humans in it who think of it as a garden. But a garden is a relationship, which is one of the countless reasons why it is never finished.” ThinkingKnowsHumansReasonEffortSecretShareDesignShapesGardenHarmonyAppearanceFinishedPursuitReason WhyWildernessConventionsCompositionConvenienceGardenerAssemblyElusiveIntricateSecret LifeIndefinable Author:W. S. Merwin
“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.” LittlesCareBeautifulHopeCostEssentialsGardenFinishedExpectedGardening Author:Thomas Church
“Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!” MayMadeDoneHandsSpiritReligionSpiritualityWorkHalfPrayingGloryGardenFinishedKneesAdamGardeningGardenerPassing Away Author:Rudyard Kipling
“The garden that is finished is dead.” GardenFinishedGardeningGarden LoveInspirational Gardening Author:H. E. Bates
“Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.” DoneBeautifulLife IsGivenPiecesLandInspirational LifeGardenFinishedFlats Author:Jeanne Moreau
“When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us” PastPoliticalArtistValuesSocialCenturyIdealsGardenFinishedGardeningRepresentation20th CenturySculpture18th CenturySocial ValuesFinished Work Book:Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings