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….

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….

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..

We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors,….

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet in a garden..

A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far more than merely a….

If you believe in the existence of fairies at the bottom of the garden you are deemed fit for the bin. If you believe in parthenogenesis, ascension, ….

In the garden of our house, when I was three. My brothers and I had a jumping wall. I remember it as enormously high, but it was probably only about ….

Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers..

He plants to benefit another generation..

My garden is a forest ledge Which older forest s bound; The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge, Then plunge to depths profound!.

By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the ….

I was playing organ at a silent movie house at Harlem and they'd be showing some death scene on the screen. Likely as not, I'd grab a bottle and star….

The longer you garden the better the eye gets, the more tuned to how colors vibrate in different ways and what they can do to each other. You become….

Soil is a resource, a living, breathing entity that, if treated properly, will maintain itself. It's our lifeline for survival. When it has finally b….

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doo….

Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens..

Europe cannot confine itself to the cultivation of its own garden..

Democracy is fine in politics. It should stay there, and we need more of it. But its political virture is no reason to practice it in the garden..

I suppose that for most people one of the darker joys of gardening is that once you've got started it's not at all hard to find someone who knows a l….

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