Great Garden Quotes

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  • Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the sensitive viewer out of him or herself and into the garden, so completely that the separate self-sense disappears entirely, and at least for a brief moment one is ushered into a nondual and timeless awareness. A great garden, in other words, is mystical no matter what its actual content.

    Garden   Self   Religion  
  • There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.

    Mirabel Osler (2012). “A Gentle Plea for Chaos”, p.38, A&C Black
  • We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.

    Garden   Earth   Return  
  • The whole inside of the Pyramid on the ground level on the New Earth is one great Garden within the City, a great City Park!-His Heavenly Fair in His Heaven so fair!

  • If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

    Garden   Joy   Imagine  
  • The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.

    Music   Garden   Soul  
  • The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters

  • Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.

    May Sarton (2014). “Plant Dreaming Deep: A Journal”, p.66, Open Road Media
  • The time will come when this luscious golden tomato, rich in nutrition, a delight to the eye, a joy to the palate whether fried, baked, broiled or even eaten raw will form the foundation of a great garden industry.

    Food   Eye   Garden  
  • Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

  • It is God's world still. It has been given to man not absolutely, but in trust, that man may work out in it the will of God; given-may we not say?-just as a father gives a child a corner of his great garden, and says, "There, that is yours; now cultivate it."

    Children   Father   Men  
    Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons”
  • If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

    To Varro, in "Ad Familiares" IX, 4,
  • I thought I'd love to be a gardener because I grew up with a vegetable garden and I love being close to the Earth and growing things. At my home in L.A., I have a great garden and I grow all kinds of things. I even have a worm farm! The worms help create organic compost out of kitchen scraps.

    Home   Love Is   Garden  
    Interview with Regina Varolli, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2012.
  • The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

    Art   Garden   Land  
  • Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend.

  • The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.

    Zero   Garden   Thinking  
    "Don't give up". www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2008.
  • Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1236, Delphi Classics
  • The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in one hand and a cold drink in the other, tell somebody else where to dig.

    Garden   Hands   Clothes  
    Texas Bix Bender (1999). “Don't Throw in the Trowel”, Gramercy Books
  • Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.

    Time   Spring   Fall  
  • My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time.

  • Gardening requires lots of water... most of it in the form of perspiration.

  • And one of the things I find most moving is the way people with infirmities manage to embrace Life, and from the cool flowers by the wayside reach conclusions about the vast splendour of its great gardens. They can, if their souls' strings are finely tuned, arrive with much less effort at the feeling of eternity; for everything we do, they may dream. And precisely where our deeds end, theirs begin to bear fruit.

    Dream   Flower   Moving  
    Rainer Maria Rilke (1998). “Diaries of a Young Poet”, p.46, W. W. Norton & Company
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