Lewis Grizzard
Author, Humorist
"It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato."
Garden quotes
Garden
2K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
John Muir
Naturalist, Writer
"As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can"."
William Wordsworth
Poet
"Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils."
Claude Monet
Painter
"The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute."
John Muir
Naturalist, Writer
"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."
Explore further
Topics related to Garden
Browse quotes that often appear alongside garden — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Garden quotes (page 1 of 101)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back. In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight. When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us."
Read quote
140 likes
"Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath? Do you also hurry, half-dressed and barefoot, into the garden, and softly, and exclaiming of their dearness, fill your arms with the white and pink flowers, with their honeyed heaviness, their lush trembling, their eagerness to be wild and perfect for a moment, before they are nothing, forever?"
Read quote
140 likes
"I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door; So I turn'd to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be: And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires."
Read quote
138 likes
"If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment."
Read quote
129 likes
"On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn."
Read quote
121 likes
"When they have opened a gap in the ... wall of separation between the Garden of the Church and the wildernes of the world, God hath ever ... made his Garden a Wildernesse."
Read quote
98 likes
"Short version: For the child. . ., it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. . . . It is more important to pave the way for a child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts that he is not ready to assimilate."
Read quote
91 likes
"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."
Read quote
81 likes
"Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky."
Read quote
75 likes
"What I need most of all is color, always, always."
Read quote
75 likes
"Sometimes I feel like I’m actually on the wrong planet. It’s great when I’m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, ‘What the hell am I doing here?"
Read quote
73 likes
"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."
Read quote
71 likes
"To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug."
Read quote
70 likes
"I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn."
Read quote
68 likes
"I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars."
Read quote
67 likes
"Muggles have garden gnomes, too, you know," Harry told Ron as they crossed the lawn. "Yeah, I've seen those things they think are gnomes," said Ron, bent double with his head in a peony bush, "like fat little Santa Clauses with fishing rods."
Read quote
67 likes
"To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden."
Read quote
66 likes
"The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds."
Read quote
64 likes
"The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid erosion, pollution, environmental degradation, and resource waste. Any rational food-production system will emphasize the well-being of the soil-air-water biosphere, the creatures which inhabit it, and the human beings who depend upon it."
Read quote
63 likes
"A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses."
Read quote
63 likes