Quotes on Garden

God is entirely and personally present in the wilderness, in the garden, in the field.

Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden.

We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors. That is how change takes place in living systems, not from above but from within, from many local actions occurring simultaneously.

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

Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce. In summer, we work hard to make a tidy garden, bordered by pansies with rows or clumps of columbine, petunias, bleeding hearts. Then we find ourselves longing for the forest, where everything has the appearance of disorder; yet we feel peaceful there.

The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much a garden of flowers as of colours and tones, less an old-fashioned flower garden than a colour garden, so to speak, one that achieves an effect not entirely nature's, because it was planted so that only the flowers with matching colours will bloom at the same time, harmonized in an infinite stretch of blue or pink.

In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.

In the woods we return to reason and faith.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.

Our Children no longer learn how to read the great book of Nature from their own direct experience, or how to interact creatively with the seasonal transformations of the planet. They seldom learn where their water come from or where it goes. We no longer coordinate our human celebration with the great liturgy of the heavens.

What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.

I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.

All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know.

Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.

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

The incarnate Word is with us, is still speaking, is present always, yet leaves no sign but everything that is.

I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.

Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands.