Garden Quotes - Page 22

• Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.

  Thomas Sowell

  Eden, Late, Trade

  Thomas Sowell (2006). “Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• In looking back we remember only the triumphant consummations of each season. Failures and frustrations are forgotten; garden-memories are as perfect as garden-hopes.

  Patience Strong

  Memories, Frustration, Perfect

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• Whoever has not learned to let Nature have her way is not fit for a gardener, or, for that matter, for a contented soul. A garden makes all our senses swim with pleasure.

  William Lawson

  Swim, Soul, Matter

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• I cannot walk into our garden without constantly being reminded of the friends who have shared their plants.

  Allen Lacy

  Plant, Walks

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• I like to assume that since I drive a car and maintain a respectable credit rating and rarely murder anyone and bury them in the back garden unless they really deserve it, that the fact that I hear voices wont unduly disturb anyone.

  Robin McKinley

  Voice, Car, Credit

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• A garden is not a picture, but a language.

  Henry Mitchell

  Language

  Henry Mitchell (2003). “The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.72, Indiana University Press

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• The CEO of the Olive Garden blames his company's low profits on Obamacare - which is odd because most people won't eat at the Olive Garden until they have health insurance.

  Conan O'Brien

  Obamacare, People, Olives

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• One does not imagine the presence of a dog in the Garden of Eden, for had there been, no doubt he would have given adequate protection to his mistress and saved her descendants from all subsequent trouble.

  Kate Sanborn

  Dog, Eden, Doubt

  Kate Sanborn (1916). “Educated dogs of to-day”

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• It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eden, Apples, Tree

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• Cease looking for flowers! There blooms a garden in your own home.
  While you look for trinkets
  The treasure house awaits you in your own being.

  Rumi

  Flower, Home, House

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• Of all our sunny world I wish only for a garden sofa where a cat is sunning itself. There I should sit with a letter at my breast, a single small letter. That is what my dream looks like.

  Edith Södergran

  Dream, Cat, Wish

  Edith Södergran (1984). “Complete Poems”, Dufour Editions

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• The unfolding through time of all things from one is the simple message, finally, of every one of the creation myths reproduced in the pages of these volumes-including that of our contemporary biological view, which becomes an effective mythic image the moment we recognize its own inner mystery. By the same magic, every god that is dead can be conjured again to life, as any fragment of rock from a hillside, set respectfully in a garden, will arrest the eye.

  Joseph Campbell

  Eye, Simple, Views

  Joseph Campbell (1983). “Historical Atlas of World Mythology: The way of the animal powers”, Vanderbilt Univ Department of

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• In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.

  Alexander Smith

  Bars, Care, Gates

  Alexander Smith (1946). “Books and Gardens”

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• There's no "right way" to garden, only what suits each person and place.

  Janet Macunovich

  Way, Suits, Persons

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• The possession of a quantity of plants, however good the plants may be themselves and however ample their number, does not make a garden; it only makes a collection. Having got the plants, the great thing is to use them with careful selection and definite intention.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Numbers, Doe, Use

  Gertrude Jekyll (1964). “On Gardening”

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• To the landscape architect a rock garden... appears... the work of a lunatic.

  Louise Wilder

  Rocks, Landscape, Architect

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• A garden in winter is the absolute test of the true gardener.

  Rosemary Verey

  Winter, Tests, Absolutes

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• Wood's not natural mulch for a woodland garden. Do you see forest trees shatter into a zillion pieces and fall? No. They fall, then decompose, then spread.

  Janet Macunovich

  Fall, Tree, Pieces

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• In a well-made garden every day is new.

  Allen Lacy

  Made, Wells

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• For those dependent on their gardens for fresh food, it was often a case of feast or famine... (One settler wrote), "Strawberries were now so plentiful that... I made 287 lbs of jam..."

  Bee Dawson

  Jam, Made, Strawberries

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• Not all introductions worked well. Rabbits were an unmitigated environmental disaster. Unchecked by any natural predator, they bred at a staggering rate and chewed their way across vast areas of pastureland as well as any garden that came their way. Attempts to control them by introducing ferrets, weasels and stoats did much more harm than good. Although these predators probably killed a reasonable number of rabbits, they also devastated populations of kiwi and raided the nests of flighted birds.

  Bee Dawson

  Numbers, Bird, Environmental

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• When possums were introduced in 1837 to start a fur industry, no one predicted that these Australian neighbours would naturalize with destructive enthusiasm, wreaking havoc on gardens and bush alike. Up to 20 million possums a year were killed during the height of the fur trade, but this barely checked their rapid expansion.

  Bee Dawson

  Years, Expansion, Fur

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• A garden is mainly ...a space around which interests can be accumulated.

  Graham Stuart Thomas

  Space, Interest

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• Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Flower, Simple, Order

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• Spirituality is not easy to define, but you can tell when it is present. It is the fragrance of the garden of the Lord, the power to change the atmosphere around you, the influence that makes Christ real to others.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Real, Atmosphere, Spirituality

  J. Oswald Sanders (2008). “Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books”, p.34, Moody Publishers

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