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The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.
A garden is to be enjoyed, and should satisfy the mind and not only the eye of the beholder. Sounds such as the rustle of bamboo and the dripping of water, scents and sensations such as grass or gravel or stone underfoot, appeal to the emotions and play a part in the total impression.
A garden is mainly ... a space around which interests can be accumulated.
Gardening is a cooperative affair. I am a part of a neighborhood in which plants, dirt, rocks and a human family participate collectively in a love affair with place.
There is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.
For a garden is a mistress, and gardening is a blend of all the arts, and if it is not the death of me, sooner or later, I shall be much surprised.
Nothing so pretty to look at as my garden!
When the time came for me to work with larger spaces, I conceived them as gardens, not as sites with objects but as relationships to a whole.
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade.
The garden is a living, pulsing, singing, scratching, warring, erotic, and generally rowdy thing. I may find peace in its midst, but I regard it as a whole with many parts, a plural organism.
The very best garden is a new one, on virgin ground. Plants leap out of that spot.
What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something wrong, stop to set it right, and emerge an hour or two later breathless, contented, and wondering what on earth happened.
I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small seed To grow to greenness and renown: And then some day you'll pass my way, See gold and crimson, bell and star, And catch my garden's soul, and say: "How sweet these cottage gardens are!"
In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty of nature is ever present, but it is nature reduced to human proportions and thus transformed into the most efficient haven against the aggressiveness of contemporary life.
A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.
My garden is a forest ledge
Which older forest s bound;
The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge,
Then plunge to depths profound!
It's not just about facts, information and technical know how ... Gardens are about time, observation and intuition.
Everybody's got plants, but most are just growing weeds. The cultivated have greater gardens, finer and gaudier gardens.
The most important thing a garden needs is the shadow of a gardener.
A garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live. A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no account; let that be low or high, grand or mean, you have made a beautiful abode worthy of man.
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
The garden, historically, is the place where all the senses are exploited. Not just the eye, but the ear - with water, with birds. And there is texture, too, in plants you long to touch.
A garden is a private world or it is nothing.
All gardens rain will fall. But the heart and the love it's capable of will give us shelter from even the worst storms.
The mind is a garden,
A garden is a human creation. It has to be thought of first, wished into being, planned for like a child.
A garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature.
Today's gardens have become far more than things of beauty. And today's generation is fast finding out that backyards can be an extremely resourceful and powerful tool in not just providing food for the family but also a brilliant way of connecting children with the natural world.
A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one's personal history and that of one's friends, interwoven with one's tastes, preferences and character and constitutes a sort of unwritten autobiography.
A garden is half made when it is well planned.
A garden is a grand teacher ... above all it teaches entire trust.
The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ... imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light.
There must be every kind of books in your library. The most beautiful gardens are those with many different flowers, with all kinds of herbs and weeds!
A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close about him, and the grime and soot descend upon him, he can still wander in his garden, does he but close his eyes.
How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.
Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth.
A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
Reading books about gardens is a potent pastime; books nourish a gardener's mind in the same way as manure nourishes plants.
Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.
The conventional, and painfully artificial, separation of the human realm from the natural other is bound to perish, albeit over a period of time, until we are obliged to learn how to cultivate our gardens under the most demanding conditions.
A garden should feel like a walk in the woods.
What I've always found interesting in gardens is looking at what people choose to plant there. What they put in. What they leave out. One small choice and then another, and soon there is a mood, an atmosphere, a series of limitations, a world.
A garden is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow.
We have built a greenhouse, a human greenhouse, where once there bloomed a sweet and wild garden.
One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the winds and rains, in birds and insects, in the warm-smelling earth.
The most beautiful garden is always the one that we have made it with our own efforts!
Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.
One of the greatest virtues of gardening is this perpetual renewal of youth and spring, of promise of flower and fruit that can always be read in the open book of the garden, by those with an eye to see, and a mind to understand.
Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
A garden is made of hope.
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.
A garden is a symbol of man's arrogance, perverting nature to human ends ...
There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.
A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's outlook on life, his past experiences, his affections, his attempts, his mistakes and his successes.
A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.
We must cultivate our garden.
This garden is your life. Of course, there are the occasional weeds - but more than anything, this garden is filled with so much life!
The fabric of a garden is determined as much by its textures as by its tonal range and architectural flair.
These handkerchief gardens are a traditional German solution to apartment dwellers' yearning for a tool shed and a vegetable garden. They make a patchwork of green in odd corners of urban land, along train lines or canals or, as here, in the lee of the Wall.
Deep within each one of us lies a garden.
I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
They were full of mysteries and secrets, like ... like poems turned into landscapes."
"'Poems turned into landscapes.'" he murmured with a slight smile. "And what of Vestenveld's gardens? Do you see poems in them?"
"Your gardens are like your country's poetry. Very frilly and organized.
Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.
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.
A garden was one of the few thing in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it then harvest it, offered a simple but enduring satisfaction. The sense of being the custodian of this small patch of earth offered a taste of freedom.
A garden is beautiful only when it is filled with people; they determine its beauty
If the nature of the world is revealed to man through religion, then gardens, as places for contemplation, should symbolise the perfection of nature.
I got involved in Gateway National Park and just became fascinated with gardens.
In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.
I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the horticultural equivalent of writers' block: So much space! So many plants to choose among, and yet none of them seem quite right!
The most she knew about gardens was the Bakers' own backyard, which contained one large mulberry tree and a rosebush, plus the window boxes where her mother grew runner beans. She knew there was earth under the plants and that the earth contained worms. She shuddered.
If I happen to come across a garden these days, I burst into bloom.
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.
What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?
In the garden of your days cultivate festivity, play and celebrations.
I thought I had finished with romantic adventures, but half-way through life and well past the age for losing one's heart, I was suddenly swept off my feet by a new love, a passionate, tyrannical, all-absorbing emotion: the love of a garden.
Gardening transcends everything that otherwise divides us.
Inside each one of us is a beautiful flower garden. This is the garden of the soul. With each lesson we learn, the garden grows. As we learn together, our individual gardens form a tranquil paradise.
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
Thus is the earth at once a desert and a paradise, rich in secret hidden gardens, gardens inaccessible, but to which the craft leads us ever back, one day or another.
If there's one thing I can say about my garden, it can always surprise me.
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Confronted with the vision of a beautiful garden, we see something beautiful about ourselves.
A garden, sir, wherein all rainbows and flowers were heaped together.
Life conspires to plant us in the funniest of gardens where the trees need an especial form of tending
The gardens at Rugeley had lots of separate lawns, paths, flower and vegetable borders, the pigeon coop, and plenty of low hedges,
Gardening is a humbling experience.
How much the making of a garden, no matter how small, adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the arts and the science can know.
The pond garden is an intricate phenomenon coalescing the intent and will of various people of influence living at various times.
Do you want to flourish in the garden of life? Life's gardeners pluck the weeds and care only for the productive plants.
By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
Working in the garden gives me something beyond the enjoyment of the senses. It gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.
A garden is a friend you can visit any time.
She plucked a rose and held it to her face. She hated the way roses smelled, their sweetness too fragile. She wanted a garden of evergreens. A garden of stones. A garden of swords.
Enchanted Garden at last. The silent garden with the sweet smell of stocks, gardenias and roses, this garden I so often walk in my dreams. Sleep
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A garden is a poem
written with flowers on earth.
Parks and gardens are the quintessential intimate landscapes. People use them all the time, leaving their energy and memories behind. It's what's left behind that I like to photograph.