Garden Sayings And Quotes

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collection of garden sayings and quotes from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.

“The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.”
– Alfred Austin

“Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.”
– Alfred Austin

“Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.”
– Alfred Austin

“Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France – that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?”
– Alfred de Vigny

“In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.”
– Alice Walker

“My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up – not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.”
– Allen Toussaint

“When I’m not on tour, I love to have a long breakfast at home in my garden.”
– Andre Rieu

“My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.”
– Andrew Weil

“In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.”
– Andrew Weil

“I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.”
– Barbara Bush

“I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers… I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.”
– Beau Bridges

“I walk my dogs. I garden a little. I play a bit of tennis. Basically when I have spare time I’m making music.”
– Bill Mumy

“If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.”
– Bill Shankly

“Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.”
– Blythe Danner

“I just go in my back garden. It’s the only place where people don’t come and bother you.”
– Boy George

“But I believe that there are marriages where you can have your pool table and she can have her scrapbooking room or garden or whatever it is. But when everyone has what they want, it’s not funny. There’s no conflict.”
– Brad Garrett

“I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It’s a busy kind of life, but I guess I’m lucky.”
– Brian May

“When you left on Saturday, I felt a horrible void, I saw you everywhere, on the beach, in your room, in the garden: impossible for me to get used to the idea that you had left.”
– Camille Claudel

“I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.”
– Candice Swanepoel

“When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.”
– Carlos Santana

“A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.”
– Charles Baudelaire

“Well I was out in the garden moving rocks on the day of the Emmys. I was just playing in the dirt.”
– Charles Keating

“Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.”
– Christopher Alexander

“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.”
– Christopher Hitchens

“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?”
– Chuck Palahniuk

“My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home in woodland as they are in a city.”
– Clive Anderson

“They say it’s better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.”
– Conor Oberst

“I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first.”
– Conrad Veidt

“I thought I’d love to be a gardener because I grew up with a vegetable garden and I love being close to the Earth and growing things. At my home in L.A., I have a great garden and I grow all kinds of things. I even have a worm farm! The worms help create organic compost out of kitchen scraps.”
– Curtis Stone

“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.”
– Dale Carnegie

“We still haven’t played Madison Square Garden. That’s a benchmark. Something will have gone seriously wrong if we don’t play Madison Square Garden for this album.”
– Dan Hawkins

“These wrestlers aren’t organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There’s a lot of drama there.”
– Darren Aronofsky

“There’s always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.”
– David Herbert Lawrence

“I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.”
– David Hockney

“My family lived off the land and summer evening meals featured baked stuffed tomatoes, potato salad, corn on the cob, fresh shelled peas and homemade ice cream with strawberries from our garden. With no air conditioning in those days, the cool porch was the center of our universe after the scorching days.”
– David Mixner

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