Best garden & window Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I returned to New Orleans and my problems with pari-mutuel windows and a dark-haired, milk-skinned wife from Martinique who went home with men from the Garden District while I was passed out in a houseboat on Lake Pontchartrain, the downdraft of U.S. Army helicopters flattening a plain of elephant grass in my dreams.”

Men Problem Home Dream Dark Wife Garden Window Army Grass Lakes Milk Elephants New Orleans Helicopters

Author:James Lee

“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

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. This natural beauty-hunger is made manifest in the little window-sill gardens of the poor, though perhaps only a geranium slip in a broken cup, as well as in the carefully tended rose and lily gardens of the rich, the thousands of spacious city parks and botanical gardens, and in our magnificent National parks — the Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia, etc. — Nature's sublime wonderlands, the admiration and joy of the world.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without clothing, principles, morals or manners.”

Children Evil House Moral Principles Fields Garden Window Manners Clothings Roof Fence Drunkenness Barns

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“We seem to forget that everything that is good for the environment is a job. Solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind turbines don't manufacture themselves. Houses don't retrofit themselves and put in their own new boilers and furnaces and better-fitting windows and doors. Advanced biofuel crops don't plant themselves. Community gardens don't tend themselves. Farmers' markets don't run themselves. Every single thing that is good for the environment is actually a job, a contract, or an entrepreneurial opportunity.”

Source: Rebuild the Dream

“The rich, sweet smell of the hayricks rose to his chamber window; the hundred perfumes of the little flower-garden beneath scented the air around; the deep-green meadows shone in the morning dew that glistened on every leaf as it trembled in the gentle air: and the birds sang as if every sparkling drop were a fountain of inspiration to them.”

Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

“It was a cold hard easterly morning when he latched the garden gate and turned away. The light snowfall which had feathered his schoolroom windows on the Thursday, still lingered in the air, and was falling white, while the wind blew black.”

Stills Hard Light Fall Black Nature White Morning Air Wind Cold Garden Window Gates Thursday Snowfall

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

“Do not judge God's world from your own. Trim your own hedge as you wish and plant your flowers in the patterns you can understand, but do not judge the garden of nature from your little window box.”

World Littles Wish Advice Judging Flower Garden Window Plant Patterns Boxes Do Not Judge

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Ah! happy is the man whose early lot Hath made him master of a furnish'd cot; Who trains the vine that round his window grows, And after setting sun his garden hoes; Whose wattled pails his own enclosure shield, Who toils not daily in another's field.”

Men Made Home Grows Women Sun Fields He Man Masters Garden Window Train Rounds Setting Settings Toil Shields Vines Hoe Enclosure

Author:Joanna Baillie

“It is a source of happiness to see the elderly working in their garden or looking from their windows! It is so good to see them alive and well!”

Wells Happiness Alive Source Garden Window Elderly Source Of Happiness

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for. Pace. Drum your fingertips. Move papers around. Hum. Look at the garden.”

Trying Looks Remember Moving Rooms Middle Paper Garden Window Embrace Staring Pace Papers Fingertips

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“... 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

“Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives.”

House Our Lives Garden Window Ancient Hunger Pet Scent Boston Lawns Ferns

Book:The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us

Source: The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us

“It was like a miracle. I'm just feeling fabulous. What's incredible is someone has given your life back. I'm out in the garden today. This time last year I was looking out a window at a hospital.”

Years Feelings Today Lasts Given Garden Window Miracle Incredibles Hospitals Last Year Fabulous

Author:Mary Travers

“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.”

Book Nature Wonder Beauty Morning Mystery Flower Glory Garden Window Metaphysics Carpe Diem Flower Garden Flowers And Gardens Rose Flower Summer Flower Morning Glory

Book:Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

Source: Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

“The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause; another chirped lower down. The sun sharpended the walls of the house, and rested like the tip of a fan upon a white blind and made a fingerprint of a shadow under the leaf by the bedroom window. The blind stirred slightly, but all within was dim and unsubstantial. The birds sang their blank melody outside.”

Made Light House White Sun Tree Fans Wall Bird Shadow Garden Window Blind Melody Blank Bedroom Pauses Leafs Transparent Fingerprints

Author:Virginia Woolf

“Adam strokes my head, my face, he kisses my tears. We are blessed. Let them all go. The sound of a bird flying low across the garden. Then nothing. Nothing. A cloud passes. Nothing again. Light falls through the window, falls onto me, into me. Moments. All gathering towards this one.”

Moments Light Faces Fall Sound Tears Kissing Lows Bird Garden Window Blessed Clouds Flying Adam Strokes Gathering Bird Flying

Author:Jenny Downham

“I travel in gardens and bedrooms, basements and attics, around corners, through doorways and windows, along sidewalks, over carpets, down drainpipes, in the sky, with friends, lovers, children and heros; perceived, remembered, imagined, distorted and clarified.”

Children Sky Hero Lovers Garden Window Corners Remembered Bedroom Carpet Doorways Basements Sidewalk Around The Corner Attics

Book:Another Roadside Attraction

Source: Another Roadside Attraction

“The drab brown front of the house made it look as if it had been built from rusty spare parts. Someone always put lace curtains in the windows of dreary houses, and Nick was unsurprised to see the curtains making their attempts in every window of this place. There was a china garden gnome on the doorstep, wearing a desperate, crazy smile. "It's not so bad," Alan said. "You never take me nice places anymore, baby." said Nick, and was mildly gratified by Alan's ring of laughter, like a living bell that had been caught by surprise when it was struck.”

Source: The Demon's Lexicon

“You, Beloved, who are all the gardens I have ever gazed at, longing. An open window in a country house - , and you almost stepped out, pensive, to meet me. Streets that I chanced upon, - you had just walked down them and vanished. And sometimes, in a shop, the mirrors were still dizzy with your presence and, startled, gave back my too-sudden image. Who knows? Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, separate, in the evening.”

Knows Stills Country Sometimes House Streets Bird Garden Window Mirrors Longing Yesterday Evening Beloved Shops Dizzy Your Presence Pensive Country Houses

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“...The simple little words came easily, fitting themselves to the tune that had come out of the harpsichord. It didn't seem to her that she made them up at all. It seemed to her that they flew in from the rose-garden, through the open window, like a lot of butterflies, poised themselves on the point of her pen, and fell off it on to the paper.”

Littles Made Seems Simple Paper Garden Window Rose Tunes Pens Butterfly Flew Fitting Rose Garden

Book:The Little White Horse

Source: The Little White Horse

“Raindrops the size of bullets thundered on the castle windows for days on end; the lake rose, the flower beds turned into muddy streams, and Hagrid’s pumpkins swelled to the size of garden sheds.”

Ends Flower Bed Garden Window Rose Size Streams Lakes Shed Bullets Castles Muddy Pumpkin Raindrops Hagrid

Book:Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Source: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.”

Should Heart Lasts Found Cities Doors Wall Lows Garden Window Curiosity Grey Apprehension Overlooked Enchanted Searching For Love Brideshead Revisited

Book:Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year," said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden. "That's the reason I was born in it," observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose.”

Years Said Reason Whole Born Months Garden Standing Window Noses Dull Unconscious Afternoon November Disagreeable Whole Year

Book:Little Women and Little Men

Source: Little Women and Little Men

“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.”

Source: How to stop worrying & start living

“I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green things growing, The shadowy cups of roses flowering to themselves- Images of time and eternity- Silence in the garden and felt along the walls.”

Dies Wish Felt Silence Beauty Morning Growing Wall Summer Garden Window Eternity Green Rose Cups Beauty Of Life Flowering Wish To Die Green Things

Author:A. L. Rowse

“English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. ... Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows, passion-flowers cross-pollinate in wild heliotrope abandon, lotuses writhe with poppies in the sweet warm beds, kumquats ripen, open and plop flatly to the floor-and outside, in a neat, trimly-hoed kitchen-garden, English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.”

Passion Sweet Flower Huge Cold Bed Garden Crosses Window Fruit Warm Kitchen Abandon Slides Neat Orderly Carrots Lotuses Poppies Sweating Orchids

Author:Alan Coren

“As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom.”

Writing Fall Half Hundred Garden Window Winter Snow Maine Catalogues

Author:Katharine Sergeant Angell White

“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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