A Garden Is Not Passive. It has its own way of responding to your involvement and commitment to it. When you walk into a garden, you know whether it ….

Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and….

And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles..

Pictures aren't made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, a….

The Garden Was My Delight. I grew up with gardeners and I just love gardens. I was always very much aware that gardens were important and they were f….

In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Here is one spot where each may experience the "romance of possibility"..

The gardens of my youth were fragrant gardens and it is their sweetness rather than their patterns of their furnishings that I now most clearly recal….

To the landscape architect a rock garden... appears... the work of a lunatic..

Wherever humans garden magnificently, there are magnificent heartbreaks..

A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb..

Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden..

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

I will go to the garden. I will be a romantic. I will sell myself in hell, in heaven also I will be..

The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and t….

Gardens can be sharp and spiky as well as rose-embowered and honeysuckle-twined: there are corners and settings where thistles are not such an asinin….

The first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys of the Euphrat….

The ideal garden is one in which a collection of trees, shrubs and plants have been procured and allotted to the best space available and are so arra….

But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that..

I'm not a Luddite, but I'm outside more than I'm on my computer. We have a micro-farm - it's a step up from a garden. We have a pretty extensive vine….

Way over yonder is a place I have seen In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream..

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