Best garden & winter Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.”

Feels Littles Alive Garden Winter Thanks Global Warming Italian Survived Herbs Housewife Rosemary

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“you mustn't rely on your flowers to make your garden attractive. A good bone structure must come first, with an intelligent use of evergreen plants so that the garden is always clothed, no matter what time of year. Flowers are an added delight, but a good garden is the garden you enjoy looking at even in the depths of winter.”

Years Firsts Matter Use Enjoy Flower Garden Intelligent No Matter What Structure Plant Depth Winter Delight Bones Attractive Rely Gardening Evergreens

Author:Margery Fish

“I cannot love evergreens - they are the misanthropes of nature. To them the spring brings no promise, the autumn no decline; they are cut off from the sweetest of all ties with their kind - sympathy. ... I will have no evergreens in my garden; when the inevitable winter comes, every beloved plant and favorite tree shall drop together - no solitary fir left to triumph over the companionship of decay.”

Kind Together Left Cutting Tree Promise Spring Garden Plant Winter Inevitable Triumph Beloved Ties Autumn Decline Solitary Decay Companionship Sweetest Misanthrope Evergreens

Book:Francesca Carrara

Source: Francesca Carrara

“A garden in winter is the absolute test of the true gardener.”

Garden Tests Absolutes Winter Gardener

Author:Rosemary Verey

“When the ice of winter holds the house in its rigid grip, when curtains are drawn against that vast frozen waste of landscape, almost like a hibernating hedgehog I relish the security of being withdrawn from all that summer ferment that is long since past. Then is the time for reappraisal: to spread out, limp and receptive, and let garden thoughts rise to the surface. They emerge from some deep source of stillness which the very fact of winter has released.”

Long Facts Past House Security Source Waste Summer Garden Winter Spread Surface Ice Landscape Stillness Frozen Curtains January Relish Receptive Hedgehogs

Author:Mirabel Osler

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”

Source: The Sense of Wonder

“Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.”

Moon Singing Garden Winter Thread Insects February

Author:Matsuo Basho

“...some people might think our lives dull and uneventful, but it does not seem so to us. ...it is not travel and adventure that make a full life. There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need ever be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.”

People Thinking Needs Long Doe Book Helping Seems Might Spirit Enjoy Interest Our Lives Adventure Garden Winter Affair Oneself Evening Dull Full Life

Book:Listening Valley

Source: Listening Valley

“O grant me a house by the beach of a bay, Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play With the sea-weed in summer, ye bountiful powers! And I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, For a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.”

Book Play House Sea Flower Summer Garden Winter Wave Noise Beach Grants Weed Fray Surly

Book:The Selected Works of Andrew Lang

Source: The Selected Works of Andrew Lang

“And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.”

Land Wind Garden Winter Loveless

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)

“She belongs to the winter that is past, to the darkness that is over, and has no part or lot in the life I shall lead for the next six months. Oh, I could dance and sing for joy that the spring is here! What a ressurection of beauty there is in my garden, and of brightest hope in my heart.”

Heart Past Joy Next Darkness Months My Heart Six Spring Garden Winter Six Months Spring Is Here

Book:Elizabeth and Her German Garden

Source: Elizabeth and Her German Garden

“No Winter lasts forever, no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it.”

“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.”

“If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.”

Ifs Would Be Summer Garden Winter August Tribulation Summer Garden

Book:To the People of Antioch

Source: To the People of Antioch

“Autumn in my garden is when trees give their tickertape welcome to winter.”

Giving Tree Garden Winter Welcome Autumn

Author:Densey Clyne

“I've been a dweller on the plains, have sighed when summer days were gone; No more I'll sigh; for winter here Hath gladsome gardens of his own.”

Gone Summer Garden Winter Sigh Dwellers Summer Days

Author:Dorothy Wordsworth

“From December to March, there are for many of us three gardens - the garden outdoors, the garden of pots and bowls in the house, and the garden of the mind's eye.”

Mind Eye Three House Garden Winter March Pot Bowls December February

Author:Katharine Sergeant Angell White

“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

“Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into instant bloom at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life.”

Mind Moments Past Lying Wish Memories Ready Summer Spring Garden Winter Seeds Instant Dormant

Author:Hal Boyle

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