Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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? "

Related Quotes:

" There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. "

" My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society. "

" I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime. "

" Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we're now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication. "

" The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair. "

" I don't think anybody would argue now that the Internet isn't becoming a major factor in our lives. However, it's very new to us. Newsreaders still feel it is worth a special and rather worrying mention if, for instance, a crime was planned by people 'over the Internet.' "

" When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us. "

Robert Smithson

" 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. "

" A weed is but an unloved flower. "

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

" My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking. "

Susan Hampshire

" In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. "

" The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate. "

" Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history. "

" There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer's day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air. "

" 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. "

" Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth the effort for end users, however much fun it is for nerds like us. "

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

Oscar de la Renta

" Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture. "

" Life is wasted on the living. "

" Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers. "

Hillary Clinton

" 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? "

" I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it. "

" I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn't anything going on the outside! "

" In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. "

Margaret Atwood

" I came to London. I spent nine months doing domestic work and gardening because I knew I wanted to get a West End show. So, when I was offered jobs in Stoke or Leicester or whatever, I'd say no. Eventually, I got 'Godspell.' It was gently building. "

" My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats. "

" The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous. "

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Alexander Smith

" Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. "

Georges Bernanos

" It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. "