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Gardening Quotes

"I did a salad, but I didn't do a garden."

"I did a salad, but I didn't do a garden."

Roberto Burle Marx, Brazilian Environmentalist

Gardening, Garden

58

"They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh!"

"They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh!"

Louise Jameson, British Actress

Gardening, Garden

43

"I never promised you a rose garden."

"I never promised you a rose garden."

Traian Basescu, Romanian Politician

Gardening, Garden

34

"That is, the only reason salvation is necessary is to get us back to the garden. The Pentateuch not only presents where we began but also why we are not there any more, and why and how we need to get back."

"That is, the only reason salvation is necessary is to get us back to the garden. The Pentateuch not only presents where we began but also why we are not there any more, and why and how we need to get back."

David Baker, American Composer

Gardening, Garden, Reason, Salvation

32

"Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors."

"Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors."

Oscar de la Renta, Dominican Republican Designer

Gardening, Colors, Relax, Dominicanrepublican

23

"Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you."

"Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you."

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish Playwright

Gardening, Garden, Roses

23

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

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

Gertrude Jekyll, British Celebrity

Gardening, Love

13

"To dwell is to garden."

"To dwell is to garden."

Martin Heidegger, German Philosopher

Gardening, Garden

11

"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."

"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

9

"If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains."

"If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains."

Bill Shankly, Scottish Athlete

Gardening, Garden

8

"Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot."

"Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot."

Dixie Lee Ray, American Politician

Gardening, Garden, Wood

7

"I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right."

"I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right."

David Hobson, American Politician

Gardening, Garden, Order, Right, Winter

7

"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."

"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."

Marcelene Cox, American Columnist

Gardening, Garden, Listening, Nothing, Thinking

7

"I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening."

"I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening."

Ken Thompson, American Scientist

Gardening, Work, Job, Literature

6

"Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable."

"Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable."

Gary Miller, American Politician

Gardening, People, Guest, Talk

6

"You're making me feel like a skunk at the garden party."

"You're making me feel like a skunk at the garden party."

Kenneth Starr, American Lawyer

Gardening, Garden, Party

5

"Garden as though you will live forever."

"Garden as though you will live forever."

William Kent, English Architect

Gardening, Garden, Will

5

"The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden."

"The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden."

Ken Thompson, American Scientist

Gardening, Garden

5

"My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden."

"My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden."

Eric Morecambe, British Comedian

Gardening, Garden

5

"We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?"

"We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?"

Wendell Berry, American Poet

Gardening, Gardens, Question

5

"The devout have laid out gardens in the desert."

"The devout have laid out gardens in the desert."

Robert Duncan, American Poet

Gardening, Gardens

5

"The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens."

"The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens."

Lillie Langtry, British Actress

Gardening, Gardens

5

"Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London - 21 Blenkarne Road - with an incredible garden, so I went and had a look. I walked in and just said, 'I want it.'"

"Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London - 21 Blenkarne Road - with an incredible garden, so I went and had a look. I walked in and just said, 'I want it.'"

Susannah York, British Actress

Gardening, Garden, London, Road, Want

5

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

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

Tina Charles, English Musician

Gardening, Roses

5

"All gardening is landscape painting."

"All gardening is landscape painting."

William Kent, English Architect

Gardening, Painting

5

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

"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

5

"A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden."

"A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden."

Robert Southey, English Poet

Gardening, Garden, World

5

"In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world."

"In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world."

Stephen Gardiner, British Architect

Gardening, Gardens, Houses, World

5

"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."

"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

5

"What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it."

"What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it."

Charles Dudley Warner, American Journalist

Gardening, Man, Needs

4

"Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house."

"Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house."

Franz Schubert, Austrian Composer

Gardening, Garden

4

"One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't."

"One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't."

Ken Thompson, American Scientist

Gardening, Garden

4

"Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate."

"Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate."

Iggy Pop, American Musician

Gardening, Garden

4

"I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden."

"I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden."

Moon Unit Zappa, American Musician

Gardening, Garden, Man

4

"We still haven't played Madison Square Garden. That's a benchmark. Something will have gone seriously wrong if we don't play Madison Square Garden for this album."

"We still haven't played Madison Square Garden. That's a benchmark. Something will have gone seriously wrong if we don't play Madison Square Garden for this album."

Dan Hawkins, English Musician

Gardening, Garden, Play, Will, Wrong

4

"I like Toronto a lot, it's a good city. The only thing that really annoys me about Toronto is that you're turning Maple Leaf Gardens into a grocery store, which is absolutely nothing short of disgusting."

"I like Toronto a lot, it's a good city. The only thing that really annoys me about Toronto is that you're turning Maple Leaf Gardens into a grocery store, which is absolutely nothing short of disgusting."

Rick Wakeman, British Musician

Gardening, Gardens, Nothing

4

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

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

Alfred Austin, English Poet

Gardening, Garden

4

"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."

"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."

Khalil Gibran, Lebanese Poet

Gardening, Gardens, Sadness

4

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Gardening, Garden

4

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

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

Rudyard Kipling, English Writer

Gardening, Gardens, Singing

4

"I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes."

"I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes."

Kim Wilde, English Musician

Gardening, Garden

3

"Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama."

"Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama."

J. M. Roberts, British Historian

Gardening, Anarchy, Culture, Drama

3

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

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

W. H. Davies, Welsh Poet

Gardening, Garden, Help

3

"How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening."

"How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening."

Alexander Smith, Scottish Poet

Gardening, Heart, Gardens

3

"I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head."

"I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head."

Edward Fitzgerald, English Poet

Gardening, Garden

3

"A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on."

"A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on."

Katherine Dunham, American Dancer

Gardening, Gardens

3

"A good garden may have some weeds."

"A good garden may have some weeds."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Gardening, Garden, May

3

"Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?"

"Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?"

Scott Reed, American Political Consultant

Gardening, Garden, Trials

3

"The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens."

"The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens."

Robert Fortune, Scottish Scientist

Gardening, Gardens, Houses, Plants

3

"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."

"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

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