Best garden & wish Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the fruit from the garden! In appearance it may glisten to the eye; but the perishable pleasure of possession quickly avenges the curse of curiosity.”

Ifs May Eye Earth Wish Pleasure Garden Fruit Curiosity Possession Appearance Temptation Curse Realms Pluck Glisten

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from town's he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd nor wish'd to change his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize. More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.”

Source: The Miscellaneous Works: Poems. Miscellaneous pieces. Dramas. Criticism relating to poetry and the belles-lettres

“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

“Let me define a garden as the meeting of raw nature and the human imagination in which both seek the fulfillment of their beauty. Every sign indicates that nature wants us and wishes for collaboration with us, just as we long for nature to be fulfilled in us. If our original state was to live in a garden, as Adam and Eve did, then a garden signals our absolute origins as well as our condition of eternity, while life outside the garden is time and temporality.”

“Of all our sunny world, i wish only for a garden sofa where a cat is sunning itself”

World Wish Garden Cat Sunny Sofas

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems

“Of all our sunny world I wish only for a garden sofa where a cat is sunning itself. There I should sit with a letter at my breast, a single small letter. That is what my dream looks like.”

World Should Looks Dream Wish Garden Cat Letters Breasts Sunny Sofas

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems

“Whoever wishes to be delivered from the Fire and enter the Garden should die with faith in God and the Last Day and should treat the people as he wishes to be treated by them.”

People Should Lasts Dies Wish Fire Garden Treats Treated Faith In God Last Day

Author:Muhammad

“The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.”

Knows Giving Wish Lessons Essentials Garden Endure Gardening Garden Love Gardening And God Jekyll

Book:Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur

Source: Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur

“I wish I gardened. I don't have a space for a garden. I'm in an apartment in New York but I do lots of stuff. I read and write and hang out with people. I go see movies.”

People Writing Wish Stuff Space New York Garden Hanging Out Apartment

Author:Emma Stone

“It was Lisa, aged five, whose mother asked her to thank my wife for the peas we had sent them from our garden. 'I thought the peas were awful, I wish you and Mrs. Thurber were dead, and I hate trees,' said Lisa.”

Said Mother Hate Wish Five Wife Tree Garden I Hate My Wife Awful Wish You Peas Thurber

Author:James Thurber

“The man who wants a garden fair, or small or very big, With flowers growing here and there, Must bend his back and dig. The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've got to work to gain. It matters not what goal you seek, It's secret here reposes: You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses.”

Men Want Matter Bigs Earth Wish Goal Results Secret Growing Week Flower Gains Fairs Garden Rose Here And There Repose Flowers Growing

Author:Edgar Guest

“If your purse no longer bulges and you've lost your golden treasure, If times you think you're lonely and have hungry grown for pleasure, Don't sit by your hearth and grumble, don't let mind and spirit harden. If it's thrills of joy you wish for get to work and plant a garden! If it's drama that you sigh for, plant a garden and you'll get it You will know the thrill of battle fighting foes that will beset it If you long for entertainment and for pageantry most glowing, Plant a garden and this summer spend your time with green things growing.”

Source: A Heap O' Livin' Along Life's Highway

“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

“My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.”

Law Desire Wish Nature Fate Travel Garden Harmony Intimate Infusion

Author:Claude Monet

“Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore!”

Littles Book House Wish Doors Flower Garden Rivers Wine Wit Meat Halls Spices Lawns Nightingales

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“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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