Best garden & half Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A garden is half made when it is well planned.”

“Short version: For the child. . ., it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. . . . It is more important to pave the way for a child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts that he is not ready to assimilate.”

Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

“The person who's in the Zen monastery, who's doing a kind of poor job at meditating and a half-ass job cleaning the gardens is not doing very good yoga.”

Kind Persons Jobs Poor Half Buddhism Yoga Garden Very Good Ass Cleaning Meditating Monasteries

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Way Wells Heart Age Past Emotion Half Feet Adventure Losing Garden Passionate Finished Gardening Absorbing Half Way

Book:The Glory of the Garden

Source: The Glory of the Garden

“My first job ever was working a ski lift when I was 16. I also worked at a garden center, which I loved. I did that for two and a half years.”

Years Firsts Two Jobs Half Garden Lifts Skis Half A Year

Author:Sara Canning

“Imagine that half the world is hidden from you. Half of the person sitting across from you has never been appreciated, half of the garden has never been seen or smelled, half of your own life has never been truly witnessed and appraised.”

World Persons Half Imagine Sitting Garden Imagine That Appreciated

Author:Arthur Zajonc

“My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time.”

Knows Doe Made Stills Used Stuff Half Know How Mom Garden And Love My Mom Bread Labour Take Time Scratches Peanuts Jelly Peanut Butter Time And Love Great Garden

Author:Julia Roberts

“With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.”

Life Book Half Flower Garden Simplicity Envy Dozen Simple Life Simple Things Simple Living Frugality Wildflowers Flower Garden Garden Love Living A Simple Life Flowers And Gardens Flower Blossom

Author:Lope de Vega

“The front door shut, leaving Alec sitting in the half-lit garden, alone. He closed his eyes for a moment, the image of a face hovering behind his lids. Not Jace's face, for a change. The eyes set in the face were green, slit-pupiled. Cat eyes.”

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass

“Drifting snowflakes brushed her face as light as lover’s kisses, and melted on her cheeks. At the center of the garden, beside the statue of the weeping woman that lay broken and half-buried on the ground, she turned her face up to the sky and closed her eyes. She could feel the snow on her lashes, taste it on her lips. It was the taste of Winterfell. The taste of innocence. The taste of dreams.”

Source: A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Three

“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

“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!”

May Made Done Hands Spirit Religion Spirituality Work Half Praying Glory Garden Finished Knees Adam Gardening Gardener Passing Away

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months hence. I believe that people entirely devoid of imagination never can be really good gardeners. To be content with the present, and not striving about the future, is fatal.”

People Believe Time Three Belief I Believe Interest Imagination Memories Half Months Exercise Six Garden Seasons Constant Strive Cycles Anticipation Timing Six Months Gardener Timeliness

Author:Alice Morse Earle

“I think the 'Just say no' mentality is so crazed. I saw a thing in a women's magazine the other day. 'He smokes cannabis, what am I to do? He laughs it off when I try to tell him, he says it's not really harmful...' Of course you're half hoping the advice will be, 'Well, you know it's not that harmful; if you love him, if you talk to him about it, tell him maybe he should keep it in the garden shed or something,' you know, a reasonable point of view. But of course it was, 'No, no, all drugs are bad. Librium's good, Valium's good. But cannabis, ooooh!' I hate that unreasoned attitude.”

“Indeed, so deep is my pleasure in the work of the garden that, if there be a dimension after death in which grieving for the loss of the world of senses is possible, I shall grieve for no person however once agonisingly desired and passionately beloved, for no emotional adventure however uplifting, for no success however warming, no infamy however exhilarating, for nothing half so much as I shall grieve to the loss of the earth itself, the soil, the seeds, the plants, the very weeds... It is a love almost overriding my love the words that could express that love.”

Ifs World Persons Earth Loss Pleasure Half Emotional Adventure Garden Plant Seeds Senses Uplifting Beloved Grieving Soil Dimensions Weed After Death Exhilarating Infamy

Author:Hal Porter

“As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom.”

Writing Fall Half Hundred Garden Window Winter Snow Maine Catalogues

Author:Katharine Sergeant Angell White

“Anytime that is ‘betwixt and between’ or transitional is the faeries’ favorite time. They inhabit transitional spaces: the bottom of the garden, existing in a space between manmade cultivation and wilderness. Look for them in the space between nurture and nature, they are to be found at all boarders and boundaries, or on the edges of water where it is neither land nor lake, neither path nor pond. They come when we are half-asleep. They come at moments when we least expect them; when our rational mind balances with the fluid irrational.”

Mind Looks Moments Found Water Space Half Path Land Balance Garden Bottom Edges Boundaries Rational Lakes Wilderness Irrational Nurture Fluid Faerie Ponds Cultivation Space Between

Author:Brian Froud

“I play around with my Japanese Garden. Since Im half way to 70 today I need to start pruning trees and sharpening plants like an old fart.”

Way Needs Play Today Half Tree Garden Plant Fart Half Way Sharpening Pruning Old Farts Japanese Gardens

Author:Jason Bateman

“In the garden of our house, when I was three. My brothers and I had a jumping wall. I remember it as enormously high, but it was probably only about a foot and a half.”

Remember Three House Half Feet Brother Wall Garden My Brother Jumping

Author:Juliet Stevenson

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