Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the weeds? Spend more time with the roses and jasmines..

Fair, rich confusion is all the aim of an old-fashioned flower garden, and the greater the confusion, the richer. You want to come upon mignonnette i….

I sailed on the cold air currents above the rooftops of Paris. I could see the river, the Louvre Museum, the gardens and palaces. And a mouse-yum. Ha….

I am the fonder of my garden for all the trouble it gives me, and the grudging reward that my unending labours exact..

Those who plant trees plant hope..

Working in the garden . . . gives me a profound feeling of inner peace. Nothing here is in a hurry. There is no rush toward accomplishment, no blowin….

Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousan….

To garden is a solitary act..

We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the ….

I'm no good at cooking or music, but I've always known how to garden. Nobody ever taught me; I just absorbed it. Some families are churchgoers or ….

Once we become interested in the progress of the plants in our care, their development becomes a part of the rhythm of our own lives and we are refre….

One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards..

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation..

She was sitting in a garden more beautiful than even her rampaging imagination could ever have conjured up, and she was being serenaded by trees..

He stopped and looked at her. "Your eyes are leaking." "It's the flowers. They make me sneeze." "Then let us be away from the garden. Open the door, ….

I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a di….

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing 'Oh how wonderful' and sitting in the shade, While better men than we go out, and….

Let me define a garden as the meeting of raw nature and the human imagination in which both seek the fulfillment of their beauty. Every sign indicate….

Have you ever watched the jet cars race on the boulevard?...I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see th….

As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the….

I had no natural gift to be anything - not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a painter of garden porches - not anything. So I'v….