A garden scheme should have a backbone - a central idea beautifully phrased..

In looking back we remember only the triumphant consummations of each season. Failures and frustrations are forgotten; garden-memories are as perfect….

There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden..

The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames..

There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage..

Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor..

Perfect alchemists I keep who can transmute substances without end, and thus the corner of my garden is an inexhaustible treasure-chest. Here you can….

Life is like a garden, you reap what you sow.

A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!.

I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden?.

Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks..

My whole childhood was about being in the garden. It wasn't really a religious place to me. The love I felt there... was in contradiction with what I….

He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to that of the hap….

Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he sav….

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

My garden is the most beautiful thing in the world..

A weed is a plant that is not only in the wrong place, but intends to stay..

She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose..

All gardeners need to know when to accept something wonderful and unexpected, taking no credit except for letting it be..

The more contemplative gardener, seeing the garden as a whole, the design of it, and its nature as a still place of delight and refreshment, will wai….

You know the sultans used to light their garden parties with turtles? They'd put candles on their backs and let them wander around. Hundreds of them..