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Garden Quotes
Most Famous Garden Quotes of All Time!
A garden can feel timeless, a place where the usual measures of time seem to fall away entirely, much like the way iconic stages become the most memorable settings in a performer's career. These quotes explore that quiet, boundless feeling, along with reflections found in our Gardener collection.
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I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?
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I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions.
- Only
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My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.
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Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.
- Frenchman
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When a Frenchman reads of the garden of Eden, I do not doubt but he concludes it was something approaching to that of Versailles, with clipped hedges, berceaus, and trellis work.
- Edgar
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I've named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only planted black flowers and purple flowers - and there's a raven statue.
- Life
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You know the way that children play make-believe in the garden? I did that and I thought, 'This will do for life. Why would I want to do anything else?'
- Heaven
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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
- Happiness
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The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.
- Gardening
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A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
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I want to fight in Madison Square Garden because it's the mecca of boxing. This is my dream.
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It's always been a dream of mine to fight at Madison Square Garden, and it's something I really relish.
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As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.
The more hands that tend a garden, some say, the less it truly feels like your own creation, a small paradox worth sitting with. Discover more growing wisdom in our Gardening, Gardens, and Nature quote collections.