(457 quotes found)
“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.”
Kahlil Gibran
“I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity.”
Lindley Karstens
“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.”
Douglas Jerrold
“What a man needs in gardening is a cast iron back, with a hinge in it”
Charles Dudley Warner
“Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.”
George Lois
“In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.”
Alice Walker
“The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.”
George Moore
“Don't plant more garden than your wife can care for”
Proverb
“The Puritan through Life's sweet garden goes To pluck the thorn and cast away the rose”
Kenneth Hare
