"Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans."

Gardening, Garden, Listening, Nothing, Thinking

39

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans."

Exlpore more Gardening quotes

"My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public."

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish Poet

Gardening, Garden, Law, Public, World

"I've always felt that you can't do much wrong in a garden providing you enjoy it."

David Hobson, American Politician

Gardening, Garden, Wrong

"Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade."

Rudyard Kipling, English Writer

Gardening, Gardens, Singing

"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."

George Ball, American Politician

Gardening, Garden, Struggle, Wonder

"I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles."

David Hockney, English Artist

Gardening, Garden, Will, Zen

"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

Alfred Austin, English Poet

Gardening, Garden

"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

Gardening, Gardens, Sadness, Poet, Khalil Gibran

"Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening."

Tina Charles, English Musician

Gardening, Roses

"The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies."

Gertrude Jekyll, British Celebrity

Gardening, Love

"The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him."

W. H. Davies, Welsh Poet

Gardening, Garden, Help

Explore more quotes by Marcelene Cox

"If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents."

Blame

"Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it will end."

Life

"Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in."

Children

"Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door."

Being

"Eating without conversation is only stoking."

Conversation

"When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating."

Job

"Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires."

Family

"Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves."

Children

"A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by a mother who sees that the others get it."

Family

"One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements."

Friendship