Garden Quotes - Page 26

• Alan Chadwick's garden is a 'garden of the mind' as much as it is of the soil, and like all genuinely inspired creations it has the power to stir us to new dreams, to a new vision of what man and nature can do, together.

  Page Smith

  Dream, Men, Mind

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• Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Encounters, Soil, Chaos

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• As the biocentric view suggests, the garden prospers when control is balanced by equal measures of humility and benevolence. A balance is struck. Control, servitude, respect, imagination, pragmatism, an ecological conscience, compliance, and a certain measure of mysticism and altruism, all meld together to provide nurturance.

  Jim Nollman

  Humility, Compassion, Views

  Jim Nollman (2005). “Why We Garden: Cultivating a Sense of Place”, p.104, Sentient Publications

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• I love paperwhites - they smell heavenly and you can often pick them up from a big home improvement store garden center already planted in pretty terra cotta pots.

  Clinton Smith

  Home, Smell, Improvement

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• When someone walks into my room and goes 'wow' at my record collection, at that moment I could actually hate music and just want to go sit in the garden.

  Erol Alkan

  Hate, Records, Want

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I never thought in a million years that I'd ever sell out back-to-back shows at The Garden. That's not to say, I never expected my career to take off. Still, it was a "Pinch Me, Wake Me Up" moment. I was like, "Wow! I can't believe this. That I'm actually here, and this is actually happening." And in that moment, when I was about to thank my fans for supporting me, I noticed that they were standing up clapping. It was overwhelming, and became a very emotional moment when I tried to thank them.

  Kevin Hart

  Believe, Emotional, Years

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• We think we live in a global village. We don't. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.

  Yann Martel

  Beautiful, Thinking, Two

  Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. October 2, 2002.

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• I cut a lot of cringy sex stuff and a lot of stuff I thought was too personal. I think secret gardens are very special. I think we all have to have them. I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more valuable.

  Damian Barr

  Sex, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Crouchers move through a garden at a stoop: naming, gasping, horraying, admiring or coveting plants; Gapers saunter, smiling or sighing at what they find, succumbing to an intangible beatitude that takes them for a brief escape into another dimension. Both sorts of gardener are besotted; both get their hands dirty; think and talk gardening; but on the threshold of another's garden, each use a different set of whiskers.

  Mirabel Osler

  Funny, Dirty, Moving

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• It's the sense of walking back into the Garden of Eden or something like that. Where suddenly everything is perfect and you see how you're connected to everything in the world.

  Larkin Grimm

  Eden, Perfect, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I remember what a thrill it was to go from the back streets of Birmingham to Madison Square Garden in New York...it's like playing on Mars. You can't buy that.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  New York, Squares, Thrill

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• There are Harvard grads, free thinkers, feminists, abolitionists, well-to-do people who want to go write poetry and live on a farm and cook and laugh and have a good time. As they themselves described it, it was an "inward facing" community. They were focusing on making a better existence for themselves, which I think is also the driving force of 20th century communalism in the US, the thought being that the world is corrupt, and we're going to build this little garden of innocence.

  Christine Jennings

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I was a really young child, I felt like I could see fairies. I was convinced there were fairies in my grandmother's garden.

  Noel Fielding

  Children, Grandmother, Fairy

  "The Weird World of Noel Fielding". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 2, 2016.

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• I was born in 1972, which means that in "rock" terms I have no business addressing "the kids" unless it's to shoo them out of my garden.

  Dan Bejar

  Mean, Kids, Rocks

  "Destroyer". Interview with Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

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• In my spare time, I paint, garden, hike and enjoy massages for my weary writer's back.

  Rolonda Watts

  Massage, Paint, Spare Time

  Source: happyeverafter.usatoday.com

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• I have a little gypsy palace here in New York. It's all mirrors, and I have my own garden. It's so secluded - the closest thing to a caravan I could find!

  Neon Hitch

  New York, Mirrors, Littles

  Source: www.elle.com

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• A small garden, accordingly, gives its owner a far greater opportunity to express himself ... in a garden any man may be an artist, may experiment with all the subtleties or simplicities of line, mass, color, and composition, and taste the god-like joys of the creator.

  Harrison Gray Otis Dwight

  Men, Artist, Opportunity

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• As for vegetables, I do not consider a plot of ground devoted to them worthy of the honorable name of garden. Vegetables are, of course, a part of gardening, but the least, the last, -for those who do not have to raise them, the most dishonorable part.

  Harrison Gray Otis Dwight

  Vegetables, Names, Plot

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• As for garden photographers, how differently they see things. With what ease the camera seems to compose a picture of great beauty with its discriminating lens. The naked eye can't censor some ugly sight on the periphery of vision; the photographer takes the perfect shot and picks for us just what we need to see.

  Mirabel Osler

  Beauty, Eye, Sight

  Mirabel Osler (2012). “A Gentle Plea for Chaos”, p.36, A&C Black

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• There is no "End" to be written, neither can you, like an architect, engrave in stone the day the garden was finished. A painter can frame his picture, a composer can notate his coda, but a garden is always on the move.

  Mirabel Osler

  Moving, Stones, Architect

  Mirabel Osler (2012). “A Gentle Plea for Chaos”, p.84, A&C Black

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• To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived with your garden. So far we are on the way: we can now stand beside ours.

  Mirabel Osler

  Tree, Branches, Able

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• You can solve all the world's problems in a garden.

  Geoff Lawton

  World, Problem, Permaculture

  "Establishing a Food Forest". Tagline, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• A garden is the place millions of people go to touch the earth, to smell flowers - to use some of that fabled human brain power in the cause of better participating with natural processes in the place they call home. It serves as an art project, an organic produce market, a spiritual practice, a pharmacy. It offers ongoing lessons in ecology, biology, chemistry, geology, meteorology. Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time. It bestows on its practitioners a genuine sense of admiration for the plants, the soil, the sun, the water.

  Jim Nollman

  Spiritual, Art, Flower

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• But well-a-day, the gardener careless grew, The maids and fairies both were kept away, And in a drought the caterpillars threw Themselves upon the bud and every spray. God shield the stock! if Heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.

  William Browne

  Death, Heaven, Dying

  William Browne, of Tavistock, “The Rose”

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• Have you ever noticed how few sitting places you find in private gardens? How seldom the versatility and importance of benches is considered? True gardeners, with their peerless taste, dexterity and inspired planting, never stop . . . To sit is almost an offence, a sign of depravity and an outrage towards every felicitous refinement that has gone into making a garden.

  Mirabel Osler

  Benches, Taste, Dexterity

  "The garden bench". Book by Mirabel Osler, 1991.

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