Garden Quotes

By coming from our Soul, we are in the fullness of our being― This is the “garden” from which we grow

~ Angie Karan

Our soul is like a soft and gentle flower, it needs to be nurtured, cared for, tended to, with sufficient sunlight, fresh air and freedom to bloom into its most precious and beautiful form. This, my friend, is self-love.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

Pride, anger and hatred are fruits from the same garden that poison the world when ripe. A leader cultivates no such fruits.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and survival on many other forms of life, so he is careful to take their interests into account in whatever he does. He is in fact a wilderness advocate of a certain kind. It is when he respects and nurtures the wilderness of his soil and his plants that his garden seems to flourish most. Wildness, he has found, resides not only out there, but right here: in his soil, in his plants, even in himself...But wildness is more a quality than a place, and though humans can't manufacture it, they can nourish and husband it...The gardener cultivates wildness, but he does so carefully and respectfully, in full recognition of its mystery.

~ Michael Pollan

Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.

~ Michael Pollan

In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens -- a ruin, sometimes even a dead tree -- the act of leaving parts of the garden untended, and calling attention to its margins, seems to undermine any pretense to perfect power or wisdom on the part of the gardener. The margins of our gardens can be tropes too, but figures of irony rather than transcendence -- antidotes, in fact, to our hubris. It may be in the margins of our gardens that we can discover fresh ways to bring our aesthetics and our ethics about the land into some meaningful alignment.

~ Michael Pollan

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

~ Michael Pollan

There are many paths leading to a garden and many experiences awaiting those who venture in. No matter what your motive—whether to grow healthy, delicious food; spend time outdoors feeling more alive than your desk job allows; help save the planet; find relaxation, solace, or healing; meet your neighbors; get your hands in the sweet earth; or discover for yourself just how abundant and generous nature can be—a garden rarely disappoints. It’s a magnet for life in all its quirky, beautiful forms.

~ Jane Shellenberger

The garden has wrapped itself in autumn haze. An unusual autumn, lacking that thrill of vegetal warmth when the sap is still alive and holds up the trees, drunk on solar gold. It is the sorrowful climax of a summer's drought. Never before was I so struck by the cancerous emaciation in a garden. The leaves started turning yellow in July and began falling, like a dance of prematurely withered bodies.

~ Emil Dorian

The ripen fruit is for a sacred season.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

..So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. 1 Corinthians 3:7

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The garden is a miraculous place, and anything can happen on a beautiful moonlit night.

~ William Joyce

Tree is tree.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A walk in nature is connection with the Creator.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every flower blossoms in its sacred time.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The love for God is the love to protect the environment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Nature displays beauty in its pure state.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Nature will always be nature.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Miss Parkinson lived alone in a big bay-windowed house of Edwardian brick with a vast garden of decaying fruit trees and untidy hedges of gigantic size. She was great at making elderberry wine and bottling fruit and preserves and lemon curd and drying flowers for winter. She felt, like Halibut, that things were not as they used to be. The synthetic curse of modern times lay thick on everything. There was everywhere a sad drift from Nature.

~ H.e. Bates

God's creation is absolute amazing.He is the great God of wonders.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I am for true world peace and building a beautiful global garden for our children.

~ Suzy Kassem

My tomb shall be in a spot where the north wind may scatter roses over it.

~ Omar Khayyám

My daughter and two sons are the flowers in my heart and garden.

~ Ana Monnar

In the graveyard built on a garden. The death of Every flower added a little life to the heart of the corpses buried deep inside.

~ Akshay Vasu

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

~ James Joyce

The first sight I beheld when I first awakened was a pair of eyes filled with pure adoration and a joyful grin that shone more brightly than the afternoon sun. Though he hadn’t spoken a single word, I knew exactly who he was. He was my creator … my Lord … my God.

~ Kristen Reed

Talk a walk with me through nature and let’s gaze on the marvelous wonders of creation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

All too soon the garden of childhood is paved cold with the asphalt roads of adulthood. And while it is not within her power to halt this unrelenting progression, a mother can diligently guard this most precious garden and insure that the roads become gentle paths that wind through it instead of byways that kill it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

In the beginning was the word and the word was love and love was imagination. When love takes us through the sun-dappled garden of our imagination, no stalking horses can perturb the rainbow in our mind or fade out its bright colors reflecting in the blue sky of our memory. (Alpha and Omega)

~ Erik Pevernagie

This is my mind's garden, I tend it; I order it. I have nothing to fear.

~ Rachel Hartman

This is God's universe and he is the master gardener of all. If we were to eliminate all colors in his garden,then what would be a rainbow with only one color? Or a garden with only one kind of flower? Why would the Creator create a vast assortment of plants, ethnicities, and animals, if only one beast or seed is to dominate all of existence?

~ Suzy Kassem

Artists are the flowers of our world. The best ones are those who can stand out from the crowd by becoming a memorable flower — one that moves us, inspires us, and makes us think hard. A flower with no smell to it is just something to look at. A flower that emits a beautiful fragrance is the one we want in our homes and on our walls. Your mission as an artist, is to become the best-smelling flower in the world, so that when the day finally comes when you are plucked from the ground, the world will cry for the loss of your mind-stimulating fragrance. Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in garden loaded with thousands of the same yellow flower, but they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple.

~ Suzy Kassem

I loved you, I did. I believe I even sold myself a bit: on your love, my lust, your hair and just the way we stood there. How the air smelled of you, the way your shirt was cursed with blues. The way we danced by the ocean in front your mini-garden. The white fence, your loveliness and the heavenly kisses. It’ll always be the sheets, lying beside, holding your arm and kissing your hair in a loving stride.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Two people, one city, different times; connected by a memoir. Can love exist in a city destined for decades of misery?

~ Ahmad Ardalan

I love the beauty of nature.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Self-esteem is the garden in which passion bears success flowers. Most people can’t stand out to stand for what supposed to belong to them just because; they feel it can’t be theirs, so it’s not theirs.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You are my wine, my joy,My garden, my springtime,My slumber, my repose,Without you, I can't cope.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

... ancient days of sorrowancient days of pain-heartaches of the pastslowly began to wane ...(from gleaning granules)

~ Muse

Be the gardener of love and joy, Happiness will bloom in your garden.

~ Debasish Mridha

True joy blossoms in the garden of inner peace.

~ Milan Ljubincic