I think I just want to garden - or kill some plants, in my case.
Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.
When we will learn to emulate the peacefulness of a tree, love of a flower, the earth will be a garden of love and peace.
I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There.
Sam: I haven't even lied in like two days. Andrew Largeman: Is that true? Sam: No.
Mark: You like that, Press Junket, that's improv bitch, you can use it.
Rudy: Mary, Mary quite contrary. What makes your garden grow?
There's no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it - I make this statement all the time: You can't plan nature; you court her.
They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.
Doctor Allenby: This won't hurt a bit. [Sticks Chance with a needle] Chance the Gardener: It did hurt.
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!
Boy, you're good at figuring things out. Isn't he? Except that if anybody's the devil in this room it's _you_, buster." An extraordinary bitterness came into his face. "I've seen you before. I know you, all right, preacher man. Age after age, you com...
Within my heart a garden grows, wild with violets and fragrant rose. Bright daffodils line the narrow path, my footsteps silent as I pass. Sweet tulips nod their heads in rest; I kneel in prayer to seek God's best. For round my garden a fence stands ...
A kind of wonder takes Chaucer over as he pants up Fleet Street and past the walled orchards and gardens of this lovely riverside suburb for princes of kingdom and Church. This isn't mob action, not really, even if there were men back there shouting ...
Many Detroiters, for example, are beginning to see urban agriculture as a real part of the solution; to grow things right where people live, where they work, and definitely need healthier food on the table. Green city gardens are scattered throughout...
The year was dying early, the leaves were falling fast, it was a raw cold day when we took possession, and the gloom of the house was most depressing. The cook (an amiable woman, but of a weak turn of intellect) burst into tears on beholding the kitc...
Think of this – that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other. True, the writer may have been alone also with Spenser's golden apples in the Faerie Queene, Proserpina's garden, glistening bright among t...
I felt good that, although there was no future, there would always be a past.
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade.
