Garden Quotes - Page 38

• I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.

  Claude Monet

  Flower, Heart, Forever

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• The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.

  Claude Monet

  Light, Atmosphere, Minutes

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• My garden is a slow work, pursued with love and I do not deny that I am proud of it. Forty years ago, when I established myself here, there was nothing but a farmhouse and a poor orchard...I bought the house and little by little I enlarged and organized it...I dug, planted weeded, myself; in the evenings the children watered.

  Claude Monet

  Children, Years, House

  Claire Joyes, Claude Monet (1975). “Monet at Giverny”, Wh Smith Pub

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• Pictures aren't made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red...But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.

  Claude Monet

  Blue, Chocolate, Doctrine

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• Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

  Claude Monet

  Flower, Unhappy, Youth

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• What I need most of all is color, always, always.

  Claude Monet

  Color, Needs

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• Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the work of a painter of light. An extension of the studio into the openair, with color tones lavishly spread out on all sides to exercise the eye with seductive vibrations, from which a feverishly aroused retina expects unquenchable joy.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Eye, Exercise, Light

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• When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

  Ernest Becker

  Love, Animal, Men

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• Everything you cherish
  Throws you over in the end
  Thorns will grab your ankles
  From the gardens that you tend.

  Robert Hunter

  Death, Dying, Ankles

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• Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for many weighty causes, that there are none more fit to bury our dead in than in our Gardens and Groves, where our Beds may be decked with verdant and fragrant flowers, Trees and Perennial Plants, the most natural and instructive Hieroglyphics of our expected Resurrection and Immortality.

  John Evelyn

  Death, Flower, Blessed

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• Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behavior of the whole.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Knowledge, Race, Ideas

  "The Primer Project". International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) seminar, October 12 - November 10, 1997.

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• In the garden the door is always open into the "holy" - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death.

  May Sarton

  Death, Flower, Creativity

  May Sarton, Edith Royce Schade (1994). “From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton”, Papier Mache Pr

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• The forests are the flag's of Nature. They appeal to all and awaken inspiring universal feelings. Enter the forest and the boundaries of nations are forgotten. It may be that sometime an immortal pine will be the flag of a united and peaceful world.

  Enos Mills

  Tree, Peaceful, Feelings

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• Looking at life through the eyes of a Daddy long legs: Imagine walking on legs so long you could cover a mile in fifty strides! Imagine looking to either side through eyes set not in your head but in a... hump in your back! Imagine your knees, when you walked, working a dozen feet or more above your head.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Eye, Feet, Long

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• For we must bear in mind that the greater number of garden pictures known to us are taken from tombs.

  Marie-Luise Gothein

  Death, Taken, Numbers

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• Wherever humans garden magnificently, there are magnificent heartbreaks.

  Henry Mitchell

  Death, Dying, Impermanence

  Henry Mitchell (2003). “The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.2, Indiana University Press

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• One constant in a world of variables - a man alone in the evening in his patch of vegetables. and all the things he takes down with him there, where the easement runs along the back fence.

  Bruce Dawe

  Running, Men, Vegetables

  Bruce Dawe (1971). “Condolences of the season: selected poems”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months hence. I believe that people entirely devoid of imagination never can be really good gardeners. To be content with the present, and not striving about the future, is fatal.

  Alice Morse Earle

  Time, Memories, Believe

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• There is a kind of immortality in every garden.

  Gladys Taber

  Death, Time, Dying

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• Here is a little forest Whose leaf is ever green; Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has been; In its unfading flowers I hear the bright bee hum; Prithee, my brother, Into my garden come!

  Emily Dickinson

  Brother, Time, Flower

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.167, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• In friendship's fragrant garden,
  There are flowers of every hue.
  Each with its own fair beauty
  And its gift of joy for you.
  Friendship's Garden
  
  If love were what the rose is,
  And I were like the leaf,
  Our lives would grow together
  In sad or singing weather.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Flower, Weather, Rose

  "A Match" l. 1 (1866)

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• Let everything in creation draw you to God. Refresh your mind with some innocent recreation and needful rest, if it were only to saunter through the garden or the fields, listening to the sermon preached by the flowers, the trees, the meadows, the sun, the sky, and the whole universe. You will find that they exhort you to love and praise God; that they excite you to extol the greatness of the Sovereign Architect Who has given them their being.

  Paul of the Cross

  Flower, Greatness, Sky

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• When we see a beautiful object, a beautiful garden, or a beautiful flower, let us think that there we behold a ray of the infinite beauty of God, who has given existence to that object.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Beautiful, Flower, Thinking

  Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, Catholic Way Publishing (2016). “The Saint Alphonsus de Liguori Collection [30 Books]”, p.4566, Catholic Way Publishing

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• As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Flower, Sake, Poppies

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.98, Applewood Books

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• English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. ... Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows, passion-flowers cross-pollinate in wild heliotrope abandon, lotuses writhe with poppies in the sweet warm beds, kumquats ripen, open and plop flatly to the floor-and outside, in a neat, trimly-hoed kitchen-garden, English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.

  Alan Coren

  Sweet, Flower, Passion

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