Quotes on Gardens

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

Author: Wendell Berry

The devout have laid out gardens in the desert.

Author: Robert Duncan

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

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

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

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

Author: Robert Fortune

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

Author: Stephen Gardiner

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Author: Khalil Gibran

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

Author: Rudyard Kipling

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

Author: Lillie Langtry

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

Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields.

Author: Gilbert White