quote paradise

" What was Paradise?
But a Garden,
An orchard of trees,
and Herbs
Full of pleasure, and
Nothing there but Delights."
- William Lawson

quote cottage garden

"Some people call this a cottage garden, but it's just a good messy garden. There's no plan. It's not like a painting - I just stick the plants in. I like large quantities of blooms all jumbled together."
- Tasha Tudor

quote

"Someone once said of a beautiful public garden, "It just shows what God could do if he had the money." But even the grubbiest garden, abounding with weeds, shows what we can do without money just because God is so good."
- Monica Moran Brandies

quote night

In puffs of balm the night air blows

The perfume which the day foregoes,

And on the pure horizon far,

See, pulsing with the firstborn star.

- Matthew Arnold, from The Liquid Sky

quote sun

"The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields

and the waters shout to him golden shouts."

George Meredith

quote grace

A cloudless sky; a world of heather,

Purple foxglove; yellow of broom;

We two among it, wading together;

Shaking out honey, treading perfume

- Jean Ingelow

quote

"... a refuge, a place of quiet contemplation, a source of nourishment for mind and body alike."
- Dean Pallier

"... a place as favorable to plant and animal life as it is pleasing to the human eye ... and nose, for the myriad of sweet scents; and ear, for the chatter of bird; and mouth, for the harvest-fresh flavors of berries and vegetables; and hands, for the velvety feel of the petals of pansy or wild poppy."

quote grass

"My earliest love of flowers, how good
To lay my sunburnt face,
In grass so lush,
It shames the name of green..."
- Alfred Hayes

"When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness. In this hour divinely fresh and still, the fair face of every flower salutes me with a silent joy that fills me with infinite content; each each gives me its color, its grace, its perfume, and enriches me with the consummation of its beauty."
- Celia Thaxter

quote inspiration

"You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint paradise, then in you go."

- Nikos Kazantakis

quote Life

"Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing."
- Arundhati Roy

quote garden

'My garden is a veritable album, and as I wander over our place I find many a dear friend or happy hour commemorated in it."
- Mrs. Theodore Thomas

quote Herbs

"A herb garden needs no window dressing from other brilliant flowers - herb foliage makes a varied and harmonious tapestry of leaves, and its gentle flowers are a bonus. Above all, of course, there are the scents - crushed in your fingers they linger, and as you walk by they waft towards you in a tantalizing medley."
- Rosemary Verey

quote

"There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream;

The earth, and every common sight,

To me did seem

Apparelled in celestial light"

- William Wordsworth

quote

"We must learn to look on plants not as mere points of color, but as old friends on whose coming we can rely; and who, returning with the recurring seasons, bring back with them pleasant memories of past years."

Henry Bright

quote

"A garden is a private world or it is nothing, and the gardener must be allowed his vagaries."
- Eleanor Perenyi

quote

"Wth umbled hair of swarms of bees,

And flower-robes dancing in the breeze,

with sweet, unsteady lotus-glances,

Intoxicated, Spring advances."

Translated from Sanskrit poem

quote

"We begin as a mineral. 
We emerge into plant life and
into animal state, and then into
being human, and always
we have forgotten our former states,
except in early spring, when we slightly recall
being Green again."
- unknown (Can anyone i.d. the origination of this quote?)

Here's another snippet from who knows where(?):

" I am a part of all you see
 In Nature: part of all you feel:
 I am the impact of the bee
 Upon the blossom; in the tree
 I am the sap--that shall reveal
 The leaf, the bloom--that flows and flutes
 Up from the darkness through its roots. "

quote

"I love the verse that, mild and bland,
Breathes of green fields and open sky.
I love the muse that in her hand
Bears flowers of native poesy."
- The Native Muse by John Clare