Garden Quotes

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. (Cicero)
There are several ways to lay out a little garden; the best way is to get a gardener. View quote
Karel Čapek
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. View quote
Joseph Addison
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. View quote
Dale Carnegie
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. View quote
Michael Pollan
A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables. View quote
Gertrude Stein
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. View quote
Alice Walker
We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today. View quote
Dale Carnegie
"Murder is born in love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.” (Garden of Tortures) View quote
Octave Mirbeau
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. (Oscar Wilde)
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. View quote
William Cowper
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain. View quote
Abraham Cowley
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. View quote
Alfred Austin
I know that if odour were visible as colour is, I'd see the summer garden aureoled in rainbow clouds. View quote
Robert Bridges
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 than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine Kind words and kind deeds. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The snake stood up for evil in the Garden. View quote
Robert Frost
A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
A cow is a very good animal in the field but we turn her out of a garden. View quote
Samuel Johnson
In spite of all the refinements of society that conspired to make art the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonards canvases beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and lawless as the earth had been eons before man had one single coherent thought in his head or wrote codes of conduct on tablets of clay. Beauty was a Savage Garden. (Anne Rice)
The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God. View quote
William Penn
A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden. View quote
Robert Southey
Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. View quote
Orson Scott Card
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. View quote
Leo Buscaglia