I had a little ladybird ball in the back garden; I think I was about one. I started off early.

When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved.

Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky.

To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds.

Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.

That's what depression had wrought inside me: one, vast, barren rock garden-without the garden

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.

Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range.

I hope that Ring Of Honor could one day sell out Madison Square Garden when WWE is not in town.

Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.

The fellow who tends the greenhouse gardens? Trust me, Lady, you'd let him stake your tomatoes.

In London I had pear trees in my back garden, so I'd make my own pear and green tomato chutney.

America has been conditioned to think of pasta as the never-ending pasta bowl and Olive Garden.

I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.

I was about 28-29 when I wrote my first story, and that was called 'The Garden of Abdul Gasazi.'

Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds?

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

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful and the ennobling in man.

What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?

I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

I have this 'Alice in Wonderland' idea in my head that a garden should be a place of wonderment.

It is always exciting to open the door and go out into the garden for the first time on any day.

What's the point of doing a brilliant Hedda Gabler in my back garden if no one will ever see it?

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

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.

Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

You can drive the devil out of your garden but you will find him again in the garden of your son.

We have built a greenhouse, a human greenhouse, where once there bloomed a sweet and wild garden.

A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.

I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.

If we can have a fast food restaurant on almost every corner, then we can certainly have a garden.

The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

A great challenge: stop ruining the garden which God has entrusted to us so that all may enjoy it.

This used to be among my prayers - a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden

Well I was out in the garden moving rocks on the day of the Emmys. I was just playing in the dirt.

I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes.

In the beginning was the dog the real name of Jehovah is Rover. Adam's rib is buried in the garden

I garden a lot in LA, so fashion consists of boots, work pants and T-shirts, unless I'm going out.

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

If you are a garden plant you are regarded; well regarded, just as long as you stay in the garden.

I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.

In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories

Somewhere, a long way away, people are doing sensible things like mowing lawns and digging gardens.

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