27 Quotes on Gardens

• In the weave of concrete and steel, where thicket meets skyline, urban gardens orchestrate a symphony--a herald of solace, ever-rooted in nature's resistance.

  Author: Mae Fielding

• Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields.

  Author: Gilbert White

• I like Toronto a lot, it's a good city. The only thing that really annoys me about Toronto is that you're turning Maple Leaf Gardens into a grocery store, which is absolutely nothing short of disgusting.

  Author: Rick Wakeman

• I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants.

  Author: Delia Smith

• How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

  Author: Alexander Smith

• Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

  Author: Marianne Moore

• The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.

  Author: Lillie Langtry

• This house was our dream-the gardens, the study, even the swimming pool. Even though I can't see John when I wake up in the morning, I can always feel him here with me.

  Author: Shirley Knight

• Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

  Author: Rudyard Kipling

• And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican.

  Author: Alma Guillermoprieto

• Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

  Author: Khalil Gibran

• In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen.

  Author: Martha Gellhorn

• In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.

  Author: Stephen Gardiner

• There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries.

  Author: Robert Fortune

• These gardens may be called the gardens of the respectable working classes.

  Author: Robert Fortune

• The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens.

  Author: Robert Fortune

• No doubt these rocky islands have suggested the idea worked out in gardens, and they have been well imitated.

  Author: Robert Fortune

• As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit.

  Author: Robert Fortune

• 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.

  Author: Ian Finlay

• 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.

  Author: Ian Finlay

• A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.

  Author: Katherine Dunham

• The devout have laid out gardens in the desert.

  Author: Robert Duncan

• I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

  Author: Walt Disney

• Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

  Author: H. Brown, Jr.

• My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.

  Author: Robert Bridges

• People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

  Author: John Betjeman

• We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

  Author: Wendell Berry

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