Best garden & rocks Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Zen is to religion what a Japanese "rock garden" is to a garden. Zen knows no god, no afterlife, no good and no evil, as the rock-garden knows no flowers, herbs or shrubs. It has no doctrine or holy writ: its teaching is transmitted mainly in the form of parables as ambiguous as the pebbles in the rock-garden which symbolise now a mountain, now a fleeting tiger. When a disciple asks "What is Zen?", the master's traditional answer is "Three pounds of flax" or "A decaying noodle" or "A toilet stick" or a whack on the pupil's head.”

“Object in/ and space - the first impulse may be to give the object - a position - to place the object. (The object had a position to begin with.) Next - to change the position of the object. - Rauschenberg's early sculptures - A board with some rocks on it. The rocks can be anywhere on the board. - Cage's Japanese rock garden - The rocks can be anywhere (within the garden).”

Giving Firsts May Next Space Rocks Position Objects Garden Impulse Boards Cages Sculpture

Author:Jasper Johns

“In 1911 the little town of Nakhla in Egypt was the scene of one of the most remarkable events in historym when a chunk of rock fell from the sky and killed a dog. This is the only known canine fatality caused by a cosmic object. Improbably though this encounter was already, its truly extraordinary nature was revealed only decades later when scientists found that the culprit was not a common-or-garden meteorite, but a piece of the planet Mars.”

Source: The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life

“Vinnie rocks her Garden and moans that God won't help her. I suppose he is too busy getting angry with the Wicked every day.”

Helping Atheism Rocks Garden Angry Busy Wicked Too Busy

Author:Emily Dickinson

“The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided. The many divisions and polarizations that terrorize a disenchanted world find peaceful accord among mossy rock walls, rough stone paths, and trimmed bushes. Maybe a garden sometimes seems fragile, for all its earth and labor, because it achieves such an extraordinary delicate balance of nature and human life, naturalness and artificiality. It has its own liminality, its point of balance between great extremes.”

“Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.”

Men Giving Years Turns Mankind Rocks Garden Possession Nine Secure Desert Bleak Nine Years Lease

Book:Travels during the years 1787, 1788, and 1789: undertaken more particularly with a view of ascertaining the cultivation, wealth, resources, and national prosperity of the kingdom of France

Source: Travels during the years 1787, 1788, and 1789: undertaken more particularly with a view of ascertaining the cultivation, wealth, resources, and national prosperity of the kingdom of France

“A tree is an aerial garden, a botanical migration from the sea, from those earliest plants, the seaweeds; it is a purchase on crumbled rock, on ground. The human, standing, is only a different upsweep and articulation of cells. How treelike we are, how human the tree.”

Humans Different Tree Sea Rocks Garden Standing Plant Cells Migration Articulation Seaweed

Author:Gretel Ehrlich

“To the landscape architect a rock garden... appears... the work of a lunatic.”

Rocks Garden Landscape Architect Lunatic

Author:Louise Wilder

“There are over a million types of fish in the sea as there are flowers in all of the world's gardens. There are at least a million different types of rocks/minerals as there are species of birds or monkeys. To believe we are the only "intelligent beings" on this earth and beyond is ignorance. The possible configurations of lifeforms that could be created from a single atom are infinite. There are at least a billion people on this earth, and no two faces look the same. It is very arrogant to assume that we have seen all of God's miracles.”

“Leave no stone unturned in your quest to disrupt a rock garden.”

Rocks Garden Stones Quests

Book:This Is a Book

Source: This Is a Book

“I was born in 1972, which means that in "rock" terms I have no business addressing "the kids" unless it's to shoo them out of my garden.”

Mean Kids Term Born Rocks Garden

Author:Dan Bejar

“I was pretty shocked [having concert in the Madison Square Garden]. It could have gone either way. But I think it's the right time. Nobody does what we do with taking the visuals and making it a complete rock 'n' roll show with the really good songs. Nobody's done that in a long time.”

Thinking Way Long Doe Done Shows Song Gone Rocks Long Time Garden Visuals Concerts Squares Rock N Roll Shocked Right Time Madison Madison Square Garden

Author:Vince Neil

“Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks. The rainbows that dangle upon this mist: shatter. Like the smile of a child separated from his mother’s milk for the very first time. --from poem Blood and Blossoms”

Firsts Children Mother Fall Air Blood Rocks First Time Garden Refuse Milk Rainbow Mist Scorpions Dragonflies

Book:I Made My Boy Out of Poetry

Source: I Made My Boy Out of Poetry

“As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can".”

Source: To Yosemite and Beyond: Writings from the Years 1863-1875

“I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.”

Earth Funny Lasts Three Nature Week Rocks Garden Died Gardening

Author:Richard K. Diran

“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.”

“My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups of plants.”

Water Groups Tree Rocks Fields Objects Garden Plant Woods Occupation Shrubs

Author:Russell Page

“How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!”

Should Heart May Has Beens Hard Wisdom Earth Grows Compassion Rocks Color Flower Spring Garden Stones Sake Experiments Heart Breaking

Author:Rumi

“Someone spoke to me last night, told me the truth. Just a few words, but I recognized it. I knew I should make myself get up, write it down, but it was late, and I was exhausted from working all day in the garden, moving rocks.”

Should Writing Lasts Moving Night Rocks Late Garden Get Up Spokes Exhausted Last Night Few Words

Book:What we carry: poems

Source: What we carry: poems

“Someone spoke to me last night,/ told me the truth. Just a few words,. but I recognized it./ I knew I should make myself get up,/ Write it down, but it was late,/ and I was exhausted from working/ all day in the garden, moving rocks./ Now, I remember only the flavor--/ not like food, sweet or sharp./ More like a fine powder, like dust./ And I wasn't elated or frightened,/ but simply rapt, aware./ That's how it is sometimes--/ God comes to your window,/ all bright light and black wings,/ and you're just too tired to open it.”

Source: What we carry: poems

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