Best garden & thinking Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You may think you don't have talents, but that is a false assumption, for we all have talents and gifts, every one of us. The bounds of creativity extend far beyond the limits of a canvas or a sheet of paper and do not require a brush, a pen, or the keys of a piano. Creation means bringing into existence something that did not exist before-colorful gardens, harmonious homes, family memories, flowing laughter.”

“It is quiet here and restful and the air is delicious. There are gardens everywhere and police spies lie in the bushes. There are nightingales in every garden, but police spies only in mine, I think. They sit under my windows in the darkness of the night and try to get a glimpse of how I spread sedition in Russia.”

Thinking Trying Lying Night Darkness Air Mines Quiet Garden Window Police Spread Russia Delicious Glimpse Spy Nightingales Restful

Author:Maxim Gorky

“I think if we all gardened more, they and all of the other birds that fly in the air above and light in my garden below would be better off. I know that God values them no less than I do. So when I plant in spring I also hope to taste of God in fruit of summer sun and sight of feathered friends.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Light Would Be Values Sun Air Taste Summer Spring Bird Garden Sight Plant Fruit Better Off Summer Sun

Book:Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening

Source: Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening

“I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water.”

Thinking Courses Grows Water Natural Garden Studios Vegetables Vegetable Garden

Author:Joan Miro

“Our minds work like a garden. It is fertile ground that accepts any and everything we plant. Good or evil, constructive or destructive, our lives will bear the fruit of the seeds we plant in our minds.”

Thinking Mind Evil Accepting Our Lives Bears Garden Plant Fruit Seeds Destructive Constructive Fertile Fertile Ground

Book:Acts Of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Colour

Source: Acts Of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Colour

“Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?”

Thinking Character Shows Bits Land Garden Owners

Book:Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings

Source: Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings

“Think of your mind, your emotions, and your spirit as the ultimate garden. The way to ensure a bountiful, nourishing harvest is to plant seeds like love, warmth, and appreciation, instead of seeds like disappointment, anger, and fear.”

Thinking Way Mind Motivational Spirit Emotion Garden Ultimate Plant Disappointment Appreciation Seeds Warmth Harvest Think Of You Like Love Anger And Fear

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“Cultivate your own garden and let go of your tendency to examine and judge how others cultivate theirs. Catch yourself in moments of gossip about how others ought to be living and rid yourself of thoughts about how they should be doing it this way, or how they have no right to live and think as they do. Stay busy and involved in your own projects and pursuits.”

Thinking Way Should Moments Motivational Judging Ought Involved Letting Go Projects Garden Busy Pursuit Tendencies Aspiration Gossip Mind Your Own Business

Author:Wayne Dyer

“One can't help thinking, Daddy, what a colourless life a man is forced to lead, when one reflects that chiffon and Venetian point and hand embroidery and Irish crochet are to him mere empty words. Whereas a woman- whether she is interested in babies or microbes or husbands or poetry or servants or parallelograms or gardens or Plato or bridge- is fundamentally and always interested in clothes.”

Thinking Men Helping Hands Baby Husband Clothes Garden Empty Mere Bridges Servant Plato Daddy Microbes Embroidery Empty Words Parallelogram

Book:Daddy-Long-Legs

Source: Daddy-Long-Legs

“I think New Orleans is such a beautiful city. It looks like a fairytale when you walk through the French Quarter or the Garden District. There is such a lush sense of color, style, architecture - and the people themselves.”

People Thinking Looks Beautiful Walks Cities Style Color Garden Architecture Quarters New Orleans Fairytale Lush Beautiful City French Quarter

Author:Anika

“I think gardening is nearer to godliness than theology. True gardeners are both iconographers and theologians insofar as these activities are the fruit of prayer 'without ceasing.' Likewise, true gardeners never cease to garden, not even in their sleep, because gardening is not just something they do. It is how they live.”

Thinking Prayer Sleep Activity Garden Fruit Cease Theology Gardening Theologian Gardener Godliness

Author:Vigen Guroian

“[On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit. ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if you cultivate delight.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Mind Spirit Easy Wonder Garden Delight Gardening Sanctuary

Author:Diane Ackerman

“It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.”

“I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails.”

People Thinking Should Hands Stars Bits Walks Garden Should Have Mess Gardening Dirt Movie Star Fingernails

Author:Amanda Donohoe

“Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think its important that parents and teachers get together to do one or two things they can accomplish well - a teaching garden, connecting with farms nearby, weave food into the curriculum.”

Thinking Wells Children Two Important Together Parent Teacher Teaching Fields Garden Accomplish Two Things Farms Connecting Curriculum Get Together Parents And Teachers Field Trip

Author:Alice Waters

“I think my love for books sprang from my need to escape the world I was born into, to slide into another where words were straightforward and honest, where there was clearly delineated good and evil, where I found girls who were strong and smart and creative and foolish enough to fight dragons, to run away from home to live in museums, to become child spies, to make new friends and build secret gardens.”

“Certainly if I were to think in terms of a field that would have required a different mode of education, I think I would have leaned in the direction of being a therapist. And without the education, or a different kind of education, I think my first choice would be a landscape architect. I love to garden.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Kind Different Would Be Choices Term Fields Garden Landscape Architect Different Kinds Therapists

Author:Jill McCorkle

“It's amazing how much time one can spend in a garden doing nothing at all. I sometimes think, in fact, that the nicest part of gardening is walking around in a daze, idly deadheading the odd dahlia, wondering where on earth to squeeze in yet another impulse buy, debating whether to move the recalcitrant artemisia one more time, or daydreaming about where to put the pergola.”

“I think the work in front of us is the first work task given our forbearers, which is to care for the garden. Now because it's the first thing commanded, maybe it's the first thing forgotten. But it is the first admonition and it is absolutely unequivocal. It is part of right livelihood.”

Thinking Firsts Care Given Fronts Garden Tasks Environmental Forgotten Stewardship Livelihood Admonition Unequivocal

Author:Wes Jackson

“There was a product on late night TV that you could attach to your garden hose - "You can water your hard-to-reach plants with this." Who would make their plants hard to reach? That seems so very mean. I know you need water, but I'm going to make you hard to reach. "Think like a cactus!"”

Thinking Knows Needs Mean Hard Humor Seems Funny Night Water Tvs Products Late Garden Plant Late Night Very Mean Cactus

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“When you build a building, you finish a building. You don't finish a garden; you start it, and then it carries on with its life. So my analogy was really to say that we composers or some of us should think of ourselves as people who start processes rather than finish them. And there might be surprises.”

People Thinking Should Might Process Building Garden Surprise Carrie Composer Analogies

Author:Brian Eno

“Stupid women, and all are stupid, think the first winning of the man the final victory. Then they settle down and grow fat, and stale, and dead, and heartbroken. Alas, they are so stupid. But you, little infant-woman with your first victory, you must make your love-life an unending chain of victories. Each day you must win your man again. And when you have won the last victory, when you can find no more to win, then ends love. Finis is written, and your man wanders in strange gardens.”

Source: The Valley of the Moon: Classic American Literature

“I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.”

People Thinking Believe Said Left Crazy Garden Intelligent Romney Eden Garden Of Eden Crazy Things Missouri Wacky

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“... Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, 'so far from everything?' When I hear this question over the phone, I'm usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.”

Thinking I Can Running Asks Garden Window Phones Forests Ask Me Vegetables Urban Creeks Vegetable Garden

Book:Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

“I could go on and on. But that is just what gardening is, going on and on. My philistine of a husband often told with amusement how a cousin when asked when he expected to finish his garden replied 'Never, I hope'. And that, I think, applies to all true gardeners.”

Thinking Goes On Husband Garden Expected Gardening Cousin Amusement Gardener Philistines

Author:Margery Fish

“...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run short o' victuals if the land was made the most on, and there was never a morsel but what could find it's way to a mouth.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Needs Made Sometimes Use Running Land Waste Mouths Garden Endless Parish

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“We believe that 95% of your emotions are determined by the way you talk to yourself as you go throughout your day. The sad fact is that if you do not deliberately and consciously talk to yourself in a positive and constructive way, you will, by default, think about things that will make you unhappy or cause you worry and anxiety. Your mind is like a garden. If you do not deliberately plant flowers and tend carefully, weeds will grow without any encouragement at all.”

Ifs Thinking Way Mind Believe Facts Grows Causes Emotion Worry Flower Anxiety Garden Encouragement Plant Determined Unhappy Weed Constructive Default

Author:Brian Tracy

“When anyone hurts us, my wife and I sit in our Japanese sand garden and drink iced tea. There are five stone in the garden - for sky, wind, fire, water, and earth. We sit and think of five of the nicest things we can about the person who hurt us. If he hurts us a second time, we do the same thing. The third time, we light a candle, and he is, for us, dead.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Light Earth Water Hurt Fire Five Wife Sky Wind Drink Garden Stones Thirds My Wife Tea Sand Candle Third Time Iced Tea

Author:Red Skelton

“I said (to Daniel Jones), 'You realise I'm always going to be The Guy From Savage Garden'. He said, 'How do you think I feel? I'm The Other One From Savage Garden!'”

Thinking Feels Said Guy Garden Realising Savages

Author:Darren Hayes

“I don't know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way - all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup - all the time. When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Want Kind Energy Hair Garden If I Could Makeup Costumes Glitter Hair And Makeup

Author:Taylor Swift

“I've learned a lot about women. I think I've learned exactly how the fall of man occured in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, and Adam said one day, Wow, Eve, here we are, at one with nature, at one with God, we'll never age, we'll never die, and all our dreams come true the instant that we have them. And Eve said, Yeah... it's just not enough is it?”

Thinking Men Said Enough Dream Age Dies Fall One Day Garden Yeah Instant I've Learned Wow Adam Dreams Come True Our Dreams Eden Adam And Eve Garden Of Eden One With Nature Fall Of Man

Author:Bill Hicks

“The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pessimism. Shadows seem to be closing in. The final conclusion isn't that life is wonderful and everything is bright and cheery and in the garden.”

Thinking Book Ends Light Seems Life Is Novel Wonderful Shadow Garden Notes Finals Conclusion Pessimism Closing Hearted Light Hearted Life Is Wonderful

Author:Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

“I think there are quite a few new Instro/Surf groups that are really great. The Mermen are good and there doing something different. The Space Cossacks, Penetrators, The Fathoms, I really like The Falcons from Canada, Mike Beddoes is a really fine guitar player. I like Nokie Edwards of The Ventures, who gave me a guitar lesson once when we were playing opposite them in 1962 at The Rose Garden Ballroom in Pismo Beach. That's were The Impacts started and got signed to Del Fi in 1962.”

“Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It's when you go backwards through the 'begats' and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, 'Hang on, that's a big punishment for eating one lousy apple... There's a human-rights issue.'”

Thinking Humans Bigs Christ Simple Issues Rights Eating Garden Human Rights Punishment Awful Apples Commandments Backwards Eden Garden Of Eden

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I think London is made up of tiny little pockets and villages, and lots of little sub-cultures. So, especially for an actor, it's a brilliant place to live because you've got inspiration all the time, wherever you are. You can turn a corner and you'll be in mansion houses with beautiful gardens and Ferraris, and you'll turn back on yourself and it'll be ghetto land. But I think that's brilliant.”

“We think we live in a global village. We don't. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.”

Thinking World Should Said Two Bigs Beautiful Known Feet Garden Sticks Village Feet On The Ground Global Village

Author:Yann Martel

“I cut a lot of cringy sex stuff and a lot of stuff I thought was too personal. I think secret gardens are very special. I think we all have to have them. I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more valuable.”

Thinking Sex Stuff Secret Cutting Share Special Pages Garden Valuable Memoir Secret Garden

Author:Damian Barr

“Everything I do is because of writing. If I go for a walk, it's because I'm thinking of writing. I go look at flowers, I go look at the garden, I go look at a museum, but it's all coming back to writing.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Looks Walks Flower Garden Museums Coming Back

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“Sometimes I think of blogging as finger exercises for a violinist; sometimes I think of it as mulching a garden. It is incredibly useful and helpful to my "real" writing.”

Thinking Writing Real Sometimes Exercise Garden Fingers Helpful Blogging Violinist

Author:Kate Christensen

“There are Harvard grads, free thinkers, feminists, abolitionists, well-to-do people who want to go write poetry and live on a farm and cook and laugh and have a good time. As they themselves described it, it was an "inward facing" community. They were focusing on making a better existence for themselves, which I think is also the driving force of 20th century communalism in the US, the thought being that the world is corrupt, and we're going to build this little garden of innocence.”

“Crouchers move through a garden at a stoop: naming, gasping, horraying, admiring or coveting plants; Gapers saunter, smiling or sighing at what they find, succumbing to an intangible beatitude that takes them for a brief escape into another dimension. Both sorts of gardener are besotted; both get their hands dirty; think and talk gardening; but on the threshold of another's garden, each use a different set of whiskers.”

Thinking Different Use Hands Funny Moving Vision Seeing Garden Plant Dirty Dimensions Awe Gardening Gardener Threshold Intangible Admiring Stoops Whiskers Coveting Succumbing

Author:Mirabel Osler

“How I hate the man who talks about the 'brute creation', with an ugly emphasis on Brute. Only Christians are capable of it. As for me, I am proud of my close kinship with other animals. I take a jealous pride in my Simian ancestry. I like to think that I was once a magnificent hairy fellow living in the trees and that my frame has come down through geological time via sea jelly and worms and Amphioxus, Fish, Dinosaurs, and Apes. Who would exchange these for the pallid couple in the Garden of Eden?”

Source: The Journal of a Disappointed Man

“To be a modern person in 2012, you are often required to have some electronics in your life. And I do. I try to put that phone down, put the computer away, and get out there and hike in the woods; feel it in my feet, feel it in my hands; get out in the garden and feel the soil under my fingers, my fingertips and my fingernails. I try to be involved in nature in a very tactile way. I think that's important.”

Thinking Way Feels Trying Persons Important Hands Feet Modern Involved Computer Garden Fingers Phones Woods Soil Fingertips Electronics Fingernails Tactile

Author:Ed Begley, Jr.

“If you're playing live, I like to think of the ensemble, whether it's the duet or a forty piece orchestra, as one person. And the entire audience, whether it's twelve people or twelve thousand at Madison Square Garden, is the other person. The two of you are going to dance together tonight.”

People Ifs Thinking Persons Two Together Audience Pieces Thousand Garden Tonight Forty Squares Twelve Orchestra Ensemble Madison Duets Madison Square Garden

Author:John Densmore

“I think being a woman in any business that's dominated by men, you have your garden variety pros and cons, where you learn how to focus and harness your various powers and weaknesses for better or for good.”

Thinking Men Focus Weakness Garden Various Variety Being A Woman Harness Pros And Cons

Author:Amanda Palmer

“To Nature the dweller in the Nile valley linked all that was dear to him: his happiest fetes, poetry, and love - all were bound up with the garden and its products, especially flowers. Few Oriental nations can think of a festival without flowers, but nowhere are they so completely a part of human life, and so essential, as in [Ancient] Egypt.”

Thinking Life Humans Nations Nature Flower Products Essentials Garden And Love Bounds Dear Ancient Human Life Valleys Egypt Linked Festivals Ancient Egypt Dwellers Nile

Author:Marie-Luise Gothein

“I think the world that I grew up in was like being in this sort of magical artistic garden.”

Thinking World Grew Grew Up Garden Artistic

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“Going to the Huntington gardens and libraries was radically important for me. They have one of the best collections of 18th- and 19th-century British portraiture that you can imagine in Southern California. One doesn't think about Southern California as being the capital of great art.”

Thinking Art Important Imagine Century Garden Library British California Collections Southern Great Art 19th Century Portraiture Southern California

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“Gardens do offer a temporal tableau and certainly mean differently in different eras and indeed geographies (think of the formal gardens in France).”

Thinking Mean Different Offers Garden France Eras Formal Geography Different Eras Tableau

Author:Martha Ronk

“I think about the kinds of gardens that Queen Elizabeth put up. She made gardens in the shape of an "E," for Elizabeth, just one more way in which she used symbolism to solidify her reign: appearing as the Virgin Queen, for example, or wearing a dress embroidered with eyes and ears to indicate that she knew all that was going on in her castle; she had spies.”

Thinking Way Kind Made Eye Used Example Shapes Garden Ears Dresses Queens Just One Reign Virgins Spy Castles Appearing Symbolism Queen Elizabeth Wearing A Dress

Author:Martha Ronk

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