My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.

Part of the delight of my garden is that you just get lost in it before you've even started to do anything.

Gardening...demands a certain attitude. It is necessary to accept the dynamism of vegetation with serenity.

Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.

Beauty is the garden scent of roses, murmuring water flowing gently...Can words describe the indescribable?

It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.

The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature.

I'm good in the garden and I can do the cooking, ironing and cleaning, but I can't hang wallpaper or paint.

She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.

Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.

I only debate with serious political youth formations. Not a group of the racist Helen Zille's garden boys.

Just as you maintain your home, your car, your garden, you should look after your greatest gift: your body.

Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

The fabric of a garden is determined as much by its textures as by its tonal range and architectural flair.

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.

We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored.

What is love without passion? - A garden without flowers, a hat without feathers, tobogganing without snow.

It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.

New York, playing in the Garden, I've always been a player who likes to play with a lot of people watching.

Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.

If we don't consciously plant the seeds of what we want in the gardens of our minds we'll end up with weeds.

The old internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens over which Google's crawlers can't climb.

Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.

I used to love wildlife as a kid and being outside in the garden and the woods and the field and that stuff.

Really, what [sea] ice does is it acts like a garden. … Losing that ice is like losing the soil in a garden.

Adam, who said to our Lord in the Garden of Eden, I got more ribs - you got more broads? Never got a dinner!

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna

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

I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.

The real wealth of a good gardener is not his salary but the marvellous flowers he is raising in the garden!

There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.

I walk my dogs. I garden a little. I play a bit of tennis. Basically when I have spare time I'm making music.

We've have to heed our Biblical obligation to be good stewards of the Earth after leaving the Garden of Eden.

Time is an amazing enigma in which seeds that were planted can turn into a vibrant garden if properly pruned.

Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.

I have an organic garden and love being able to say, 'I'm going to see what I can pick to throw in my salad.'

I have a paper, pencil, and ink sketch for a Mickey Mouse cartoon short entitled 'Mickey's Garden' from 1935.

The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

The work of a garden bears visible fruits-in a world where most of our labours seem suspiciously meaningless.

I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.

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

As you get older, you have more time on your hands. Some people do croswords and others jigsaws, but I garden.

Growing up, we always had a big garden, and it just gave me the passion and appreciation for really good food.

Apart from actually playing football, I am at my most happiest with either my dogs, or planting in the garden.

A Warrior also knows that the fool who gives advice about someone else's garden is not tending his own plants.

I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.

This great purple butterfly, In the prison of my hands, Has a learning in his eye Not a poor fool understands.

What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

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