Best garden & sitting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Sitting on the floor of a room in Japan, looking out on a small garden with flowers blooming and dragonflies hovering in space, I suddenly felt as if I had been too long above my boots.”

Ifs Long Felt Space Rooms Wonder Flower Sitting Garden Japan Boots Blooming Hovering Blooming Flower Dragonflies

Author:Mark Tobey

“Last week, when I went early into my garden, a rose-breasted grosbeak was sitting on the fence. Oh, he was beautiful as a flower. I hardly dared to breathe, I did not stir, and we gazed at each other fully five minutes before he concluded to move.”

Lasts Beautiful Moving Five Week Minutes Flower Sitting Garden Rose Breathe Fence Five Minutes

Book:Letters of Celia Thaxter

Source: Letters of Celia Thaxter

“I've got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic.”

Reading Gone Tree Sitting Garden Bottom Silver Exotic Birch Trees

Author:Geri Halliwell

“You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.”

Ifs Feelings Hands Beautiful Easy Sitting Garden Satisfaction Chairs Yield Tomatoes Good Feeling

Author:Dan Buettner

“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

“Have you ever noticed how few sitting places you find in private gardens? How seldom the versatility and importance of benches is considered? True gardeners, with their peerless taste, dexterity and inspired planting, never stop . . . To sit is almost an offence, a sign of depravity and an outrage towards every felicitous refinement that has gone into making a garden.”

Gone Taste Sitting Garden Importance Inspired Privacy Gardener Outrage Benches Refinement Offence Depravity Versatility Dexterity

Author:Mirabel Osler

“Sitting in your garden is a feat to be worked at with unflagging determination and single-mindedness. . . . I am deeply committed to sitting in the garden.”

Sitting Determination Garden Committed Feats Single Mindedness

Author:Mirabel Osler

“Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.”

Made Beautiful Singing Sitting Garden Sight Shade Gardening Gardener Wildflowers Flower Garden Gardening And God Inspirational Gardening Flowers And Gardens Japanese Gardens

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, "If wet, in the library." Who could say that this is bad?”

Ifs Hands Dies My Own Sitting Garden England Add Library Glasses Chairs Wet Ipods Endgame Brandy Sitting In A Chair

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.”

Knows Philosophy Tree Sitting Garden Fellows Philosopher Insane Again And Again Pointing

Book:On Certainty

Source: On Certainty

“All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being kicked in the backside for love of Miss Cunegonde, if you hadn't been sent before the Inquisition, if you hadn't traveled across America on foot, if you hadn't given a good sword thrust to the baron, if you hadn't lost all your sheep from the good land of Eldorado, you wouldn't be sitting here eating candied citron and pistachios. - That is very well put, said Candide, but we must cultivate our garden.”

Ifs World Wells Said Together America Lost Given Feet Land Missing Events Fine Eating Sitting Garden Driven Sheep Traveled Linked Castles Thrust Inquisition Backsides Candide Pistachios

Author:Voltaire

“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

“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”

“At teenage parties he was always wandering into the garden, sitting on a bench in the dark . . . staring up at the constellations and pondering all those big questions about the existence of God and the nature of evil and the mystery of death, questions which seemed more important than anything else in the would until a few years passed and some real questions had been dumped into your lap, like how to earn a living, and why people fell in and out of love, and how long you could carry on smoking and then give up without getting lung cancer.”

“Sitting in an English Garden waiting for the sun If the sun don't come You get a tan from standing in the English rain.”

Ifs Waiting Sun Sitting Rain Garden Standing

Author:John Lennon

“Here I am in the garden laughing an old woman with heavy breasts and a nicely mapped face how did this happen well that's who I wanted to be at last a woman in the old style sitting stout thighs apart under a big skirt grandchild sliding on off my lap a pleasant summer perspiration that's my old man across the yard he's talking to the meter reader he's telling him the world's sad story how electricity is oil or uranium and so forth I tell my grandson run over to your grandpa ask him to sit beside me for a minute I am suddenly exhausted by my desire to kiss his sweet explaining lips.”

Source: Begin Again: Poems by Gracey Paley

“She was sitting in a garden more beautiful than even her rampaging imagination could ever have conjured up, and she was being serenaded by trees.”

Beautiful Imagination Tree Sitting Garden

Book:Spellweaver

Source: Spellweaver

“What is love?” “I don’t know.” “Love is the name given to the bond Kemal feels with Füsun whenever they travel along highways or sidewalks; visit houses, gardens, or rooms; or whenever he watches her sitting in tea gardens and restaurants, and at dinner tables.” “Hmmm … that’s a lovely answer,~ But isn’t love what you feel when you can’t see me?” “Under those circumstances, it becomes a terrible obsession, an illness.”

Source: The Museum of Innocence

“A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.”

“I was in a garden at the Rodin Museum. For a few minutes I was alone, sitting on a bench between two long hedges of roses. Pink roses. Suddenly I felt the most powerful feeling of peace, and I had the thought that death, if it means an absorption into a reality like the one that was before me, might be all right.”

Ifs Mean Long Two Feelings Reality Might Felt Powerful Minutes Sitting Garden Rose Grieving Most Powerful Museums Benches Absorption Rodin

Author:Irving Howe

“Whoever is sitting with friends is in the midst of a flower garden, though he may be in the fire. Whoever sits with an enemy is in the fire, even though he is in the midst of a garden.”

May Wisdom Enemy Fire Flower Sitting Garden Islamic Midst Flower Garden

Author:Rumi

“Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing 'Oh how wonderful' and sitting in the shade, While better men than we go out, and start their working lives By grubbing weeds from garden paths with broken dinner knives.”

Men Made Path Wonderful Broken Singing Sitting Garden England Dinner Live By Weed Shade Knives Better Man Working Life

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“I realize that the memories I cherish most are not the first night successes, but of simple, everyday things: walking through our garden in the country after rain; sitting outside a cafe in Provence, drinking the vin de pays; staying at a little hotel in an English market town with Larry, in the early days after our marriage, when he was serving in the Fleet Air Arm, and I was touring Scotland, so that we had to make long treks to spend weekends together.”

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