“Well, before writing became all-consuming, I was a quilter, like Hattie and Perilee. I don’t do that anymore, but I do knit, garden and watch the birds in my backyard. I also take lots of walks, do yoga and talk my husband into taking me out to dinner as often as possible.” WritingWellsWalksWatchesHusbandBirdYogaGardenDinnerMy HusbandConsumingBackyardsQuilters Author:Kirby Larson
“I had looked forward to old age as a time of quietness, a time to draw my horizons about me, to watch memories ripening in the sunlight of a walled garden. But there is the void over my head and the distance within that the tireless signals come from. And astronaut on impossible journeys to the far side of the self I return with messages I cannot decipher.” SelfAgeSidesMemoriesWatchesImpossibleJourneyReturnMessagesDrawsGardenDistanceOld AgeHorizonVoidSunlightSignalsAstronautQuietnessWatch MeDecipherRipeningFar Side Author:R. S. Thomas
“If someone says "You're not doing that right," hand him the shovel, sit and watch. That's the right way to garden.” IfsWayHandsWatchesGardenRight WayShovels Author:Janet Macunovich
“And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. and i will never grow so old again, and i will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain.” GrowsWalksWatchesSkyTomorrowOceanRainGardenBoatWetSailingGetting HighFerry Author:Van Morrison
“For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves to line them up on the shelf in multicoloured rows: he watches over each of them with an old-fashioned gardener's delight, holds them like fragile objects in his thin, bloodless hands.” MenBookHandsLinesWatchesFrontsObjectsFlowerQuietGardenDelightFlatsFragilePassiveShelvesOld FashionedGardener Book:The Post Office Girl Source: The Post Office Girl
“I love it here in Boston and I love studying medicine. But it’s not home. Dublin is home. Being back with you felt like home. I miss my best friend. I’ve met some great guys here, but I didn’t grow up with any of them playing cops and robbers in my back garden. I don’t feel like they are real friends. I haven’t kicked them in the shins, stayed up all night on Santa watch with them, hung from trees pretending to be monkeys, played hotel, or laughed my heart out as their stomachs were pumped. It’s kind of hard to beat that.” FeelsHeartKindRealHardHomeNightGuyGrowsFeltWatchesGrowing UpStudyTreeMissingHavensMy HeartMetsBeatsGardenMedicineHotelPretendingLaughedCopHungMonkeysReal FriendsMy Best FriendBostonSantaAll NightRobbersDublinUp All NightGreat GuyCops And Robbers Author:Cecelia Ahern
“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.” KnowsFeelsHouseNamesGivenAnswersLove IsRoomsWatchesSunCircumstancesTerribleSittingGardenTablesIllnessDinnerLovelyObsessionTeaRestaurantsHighwaysSidewalkWhat Is LoveDinner TableHmmm Book:The Museum of Innocence Source: The Museum of Innocence
“To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.” MenLifeBitsCan DoRaceWatchesEssentialsGardenPlantDelightSeedsGardeningScratchesRenewalGarden LoveHoePlanting A GardenPlanting SeedsRenewal Of Life Book:My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition Source: My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition
“I always wanted to create this community that would come and tell their own story, shoot it - and watch them. The idea is to not have one entity who creates the work, the project, and another entity who consumes it; the idea is people create their own work, like somebody cultivating his garden.” PeopleIdeasStoriesWantedCommunityWatchesProjectsGardenEntityCultivating Author:Michel Gondry