Garden Quotes - page 2

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? (Chuck Palahniuk)
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece. View quote
Claude Monet
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. View quote
Oscar Wilde
LORD ILLINGWORTH. The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. MRS ALLONBY. It ends with Revelations. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name. View quote
Sylvia Browne
Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. View quote
Francis Bacon
Locke sank into a swoon The Garden died God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? View quote
Douglas Adams
The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om. View quote
Eden Ahbez
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom. (Rumi)
[E]xclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society. View quote
Alfred Austin
Show me your garden, provided it be your own, and I will tell you what you are like. View quote
Alfred Austin
The World is so empty if one thinks only of the mountains, rivers, and cities but to know someone who thinks and feels with us,and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house. View quote
Franz Schubert
We must cultivate our garden. View quote
Voltaire
A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light, And closed them beneath the kisses of night. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Elton wanted a garden. They were building all afternoon while we were rehearsing. And then they built a fountain for Elton. And he said, I was only joking! View quote
Maurice Gibb
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. View quote
Andrew Weil
My heart was now a secret garden and the walls were very high. View quote
William Goldman
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)
Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it. View quote
Bruce H. Lipton
You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling. View quote
Dan Buettner
Way over yonder is a place I have seen In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream. View quote
Carole King
The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters. View quote
May Sarton