Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven? "
Alfred de Vigny
Heaven
Garden
Know
Related Quotes:
" The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens. "
Lillie Langtry
Pure
Gardening
Me
" It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. "
George Eliot
Trees
Gardening
Plant
" Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction? "
Alfred de Vigny
Fact
Eyes
Own
" How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening. "
Alexander Smith
Human Heart
Human
Gardening
" I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids. "
Beau Bridges
Garden
Flowers
Like
" Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization. "
Daniel Webster
Man
Gardening
Forget
" I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden. "
Hayley Mills
Like
Garden
Gardening
" God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. "
Francis Bacon
Gardening
God
Human
" One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning? "
Francis Cabot Lowell
Imagination
Goals
Gardening
" The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. "
Luther Burbank
Plant
Apart
Gardening
" Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time. "
Peter Zumthor
Gardening
Think
Simple
" Very early, I thought I would go into music, but I was aware that it would bring a set of obstacles I didn't find particularly attractive. Also, I'm not a great performer! For a while, I thought I would do something in landscape gardening. But it was always fashion for me. "
Stella McCartney
Gardening
Music
Great
" 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 doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself. "
Roberto Burle Marx
Gardening
Plant
Landscape
" Software is like gardening - one day I'll go behind the shed and clean up. But if nobody ever goes there, does it matter a lot? "
Mike Krieger
Nobody
Software
Day
" The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute. "
Charlotte Smith
Gardening
Beauty
Cottage
" A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. "
Michael Pollan
Nature
Gardening
Lawn
" I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good. "
Michael Fish
Good
Gardening
You
" 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? "
Douglas Adams
Gardening
Beautiful
Believe
" When I go into the garden, I forget everything. It's uncomplicated in my world of gardening. It's trial and error, really. If something doesn't work, it comes out, and you start all over again. "
Emilia Fox
You
World
Work
" There's something about beautiful moments in sports that alters our experience of time. And I'd say the same thing about poetry and gardening. Gardening slows me down. I want to stop and observe everything. "
Ross Gay
Sports
Beautiful
Gardening
" Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers. "
Hillary Clinton
Gardening
Guilty
Time
" He plants trees to benefit another generation. "
Caecilius Statius
Plants
He
Generation
" Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth. "
Robert Fortune
Gardening
Growth
Plants
" I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock. "
Carolyn Murphy
Hat
Always
Surfing
" 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
Work
Job
Myself
" France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man. "
Alfred de Vigny
Humanity
Drama
History
" What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. "
Charles Dudley Warner
Needs
Gardening
Man
" I love Michel Roux, Jr., and James Martin - the chefs who are experts in their own right, like Rick Stein on fish. But I don't watch them very much because I don't think it's fair for my husband to be in a total food environment all the time! So we watch programmes about gardening more. "
Mary Berry
Love
Think
Time
" At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering. "
Jennifer Saunders
Relax
Gardening
Home
" Use plants to bring life. "
Douglas Wilson
Gardening
Use
Plants