Garden Quotes - Page 31

• Protecting vital sources of renewal - unscathed marshes, healthy reefs, and deep-sea gardens - will provide hope for the future of the Gulf, and for all of us.

  Sylvia Earle

  Sea, Healthy, Renewal

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• It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Community, Doe, Toronto

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• I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden?

  Hilary Mantel

  Hands, Very Happy, Bookshops

  "Author, author: I feel nostalgic for disorder" by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. April 03, 2009.

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• A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with us the reverse is true; our views change constantly; but our lunch does not change. Now, I should like men to have strong and rooted conceptions, but as for their lunch, let them have it sometimes in the garden, sometimes in bed, sometimes on the roof, sometimes in the top of a tree. Let them argue from the same first principles, but let them do it in a bed, or a boat, or a balloon.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Strong, Men, Views

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• Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Nature, Health

  'Letters on a Regicide Peace' Letter 3 (1797)

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• All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Landscape Painting, Pope, Said

  Rebecca Solnit (2014). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.99, Granta Books

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• The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Land, Cities, City Planning

  My Summer in a Garden "SixteenthWeek" (1870)

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• Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.

  Matsuo Basho

  Winter, Moon, Singing

  Matsuo Basho, “Winter Garden”

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• He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises crabs and choke pears, deserves to lose the respect of all sensible men.

  Andrew Jackson Downing

  Country, Men, Land

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• Fertility of the soil is the future of civilization.

  Albert Howard

  Civilization, Fertility, Soil

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• Because,” he said quietly as she stood up, “until you walked into it, this was an ordinary garden.” Puzzled, Elizabeth tipped her head. “What is it now?” “Heaven.

  Judith McNaught

  Heaven, Ordinary, Stood Up

  Judith McNaught (1991). “Almost Heaven”, p.372, Simon and Schuster

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• Looking at her, he was in London again. He saw the gaslight and smelled the smoke and dirt and horses, the metallic tang of fog, the flowers in Kew Gardens. He saw a boy with black hair and blue eyes like Alec's. A girl with long brown curls and a serious face. In a world where everything went away from him eventually, she was one of the few remaining constants.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Horse, Flower

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• When the rose is gone and the garden faded you will no longer hear the nightingale's song. The Beloved is all; the lover just a veil. The Beloved is living; the lover a dead thing. If love withholds its strengthening care, the lover is left like a bird without care, the lover is left like a bird without wings. How will I be awake and aware if the light of the Beloved is absent? Love wills that this Word be brought forth.

  Rumi

  Song, Light, Wings

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.109, Shambhala Publications

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• And when you come back to Japan next summer, let's have that date or whatever you want to call it. We can go to the zoo or the botanical garden or the aquarium, and then we'll have the most politically correct and scrumptious omelets we can find.

  Haruki Murakami

  Summer, Zoos, Japan

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• Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.

  John Steinbeck

  Play, Mind, Sometimes

  John Steinbeck (2001). “Novels, 1942-1952”

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• To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Flower, Mean, Borders

  Gertrude Jekyll (1919). “Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden”

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• Good bones are important, so it is wise to go slowly and get your plan right before launching into a vital project.

  Rosemary Verey

  Wise, Important, Bones

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• Even the most irresistible flowering plant, one that I call a 'key' performer, is part of a whole cast; it has to be considered as a component in an overall look as well as for its individual charms.

  Penelope Hobhouse

  Keys, Looks, Individual

  Penelope Hobhouse (2001). “Flower garden designs”

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• Don't accuse me of being morbid when I'm merely the product of a culture that buries the bones of the ones they love in pretty, manicured flower gardens so they can keep them nearby and go talk to them whenever they feel troubled or depressed. That's morbid. Not to mention bizarre. Dogs bury bones, too.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Dog, Flower, Culture

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.171, Dell

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• Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive, Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Eye, Grieving, Rose

  Khaled Hosseini (2008). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.365, A&C Black

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• The man who wants a garden fair, or small or very big, With flowers growing here and there, Must bend his back and dig. The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've got to work to gain. It matters not what goal you seek, It's secret here reposes: You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses.

  Edgar Guest

  Flower, Men, Goal

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• The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alivewith chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s names.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Laughter, Air, Swings

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.32, Atlântico Press

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• Never thee stop believin' in th' Big Good Thing an' knowin' th' world's full of it - and call it what tha' likes. Tha' wert singin' to it when I come into t' garden.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Likes, World, Good Things

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911). “The Secret Garden”, Copp Clark Company

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• People’s souls are like gardens. You can’t turn your back on someone because his garden’s full of weeds. You have to give him water and lots of sunshine.

  Nancy Farmer

  Weed, Sunshine, People

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• Sitting in an English
  Garden waiting for the sun
  If the sun don't come
  You get a tan from standing in the English rain.

  John Lennon

  Rain, Waiting, Sitting

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