(457 quotes found)
“I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.”
Richard Diran
“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.”
Marianne Moore
“Gardens are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade.”
Rudyard Kipling
“Don't wear perfume in the garden - unless you want to be pollinated by bees.”
Anne Raver
“Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.”
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.”
Sam Llewelyn
“Gardening, I told myself, is the most sociable of hobbies. The very nature of one's field of activities demands an audience. No one wants flowers to blush unseen or waste their sweetness.”
Barbara Cheney
“A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.”
Bible
“(Upon a guest admiring her pansys)"Do you mean the ones in my garden or at my table!"”
Wallis Simpson Duchess of Windsor
“We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?”
Wendell Berry
