Gardens Quotes

“God Almighty first planted a garden.”

“Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, nihil deerit.”

“[N]one but a poet could have made such a garden.”

“My garden painted o'er
With Nature's hand, not Art's.”

“Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.”

“Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.”

“The garden lies,
A league of grass, wash'd by a slow broad stream.”

“Come into the garden, Maud,
For the black bat, night, has flown.”

“Garden”

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“And add to these retired Leisure,
That in trim gardens takes his pleasure.”

“Show me your garden, provided it be your own, and I will tell you what you are like.”

“One is nearer God's heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earth.”

“An album is a garden, not for show
Planted, but use; where wholesome herbs should grow.”

“Who loves a garden, loves a greenhouse too.”

“God the first garden made, and the first city, Cain.”

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

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

“We have descended into the garden and caught 300 slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and squalid in gardening. It makes it so like life.”

“A little garden square and wall'd;
And in it throve an ancient evergreen,
A yew-tree, and all round it ran a walk
Of shingle, and a walk divided it.”