“place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his nature, the base as well as the noble. Here also he buries his sorrows and difficulties and cherishes his ideals and hopes. It is in the garden that men discover themselves. Indeed one discovers not only his real self but also his ideal self?he returns to his youth. Inevitably the garden is made the scene of man's merriment, escapades, romantic abandonment, spiritual awakening or the perfection of his finer self.” MenWellsChildrenMadeRealSelfPlaySpiritualLaughingYouthFlowerReturnSorrowSceneBirdPicksIdealsGardenPerfectionDifficultyNobleAwakeningPetCherishButterflyMaking LoveAbandonmentSpiritual AwakeningMaidensReal SelfMerrimentEscapade Author:Confucius
“I love paperwhites - they smell heavenly and you can often pick them up from a big home improvement store garden center already planted in pretty terra cotta pots.” HomeBigsPicksGardenSmellStoresImprovementHeavenlyPotHome Improvement Author:Clinton Smith
“As for garden photographers, how differently they see things. With what ease the camera seems to compose a picture of great beauty with its discriminating lens. The naked eye can't censor some ugly sight on the periphery of vision; the photographer takes the perfect shot and picks for us just what we need to see.” NeedsSeemsEyeJusticePerfectBeautyVisionSeeingPicksShotsGardenSightCamerasPhotographerUglyNakedEaseLensesPeripheryNaked Eyes Book:A Gentle Plea for Chaos Source: A Gentle Plea for Chaos
“High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.” ChildrenSelfAgeSelf EsteemPicksExpectationsGardenEsteemNecksBirthdayGiftedHigh ExpectationsFuture Self Author:James Wolcott
“If you listen, you can hear it. The city, it sings. If you stand quietly, at the foot of a garden, in the middle of the street, on the roof of a house. It's clearest at night, when the sound cuts more sharply across the surface of things, when the song reaches out to a place inside you. It's a wordless song, for the most, but it's a song all the same, and nobody hearing it could doubt what it sings. And the song sings the loudest when you pick out each note.” IfsNightSongHouseSoundCitiesDoubtCuttingFeetStreetsMiddlePicksGardenNotesHearingSurfaceReach OutRoof Book:If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things Source: If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
“She finds tales everywhere, in grains of sand she picks up from the garden, in puffs of smoke that drift out from the chimneys of the village, in fragments of smooth timber or glass in the jetsam. She will ask them, "Where did you come from? How did you get here?" And they will answer her in voices very like her own, but with new lilts and squeaks and splashes in them that show they are their own.” ShowsAsksVoiceAnswersPicksGardenGlassesTalesSmokeSandVillageGrainSmoothFragmentsLike HerPuffChimneysGrains Of SandTimber Author:David Almond
“Must you know that yours will be the “better” picture before you pick up the brush and paint? Can it not simply be another picture? Another expression of beauty? Must a rose be “better” than an iris in order to justify it’s existence? I tell you this: you are all flowers in the Garden of the Gods.” KnowsOrderExistenceExpressionFlowerPicksGardenRosePaintJustifyBrushesIrises Book:Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue Source: Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say 'secrets.' As a child I always had a secret world and my favorite book was “A Secret Garden.” IfsWorldChildrenBookSecretPhotographyPicksGardenPhotographerMy FavoriteSingle WordFavorite BookSecret Garden Author:Joyce Tenneson