Top Garden Quotes

If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.

I had been obsessed with insects and creepy-crawlies: I used to get up at five o'clock in the morning and go out into this field behind our garden and collect insects before everyone else got up, and...

Garden Definition

(n.) A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.

(n.) A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country.

(v. i.) To lay out or cultivate a garden; to labor in a garden; to practice horticulture.

(v. t.) To cultivate as a garden.

I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.

A soul without kindness is like a garden without plants and flowers.

I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about.

How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.

Every garden scheme should have a backbone, a central idea beautifully phrased. Every wall, path, stone and flower should have its relationship to the central idea.

Somewhere on the world was the Emperor's palace, set amid one hundred square miles of natural soil, rainbowed with flowers.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through which it has endured, and is not so much the work of man as the work of wind and rain and the herd...

Tree is tree.

The peace of the gardens and the kindly lights in the windows poured a tender influence into his restless heart.

My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning.

There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and a fruit tree or two. Those families will be fortunate who, in the last days, have...

The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.