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Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade. -- Rudyard Kipling
I like Toronto a lot, it's a good city. The only thing that really annoys me about Toronto is that you're turning Maple Leaf Gardens into a grocery store, which is absolutely nothing short of disgusting. -- Rick Wakeman
Gardens are our link with the divine. -- William Howard Adams
Gardens and chocolate both have mystical qualities. -- Edward Flaherty
Libraries Are Neccessary Gardens, Unsurpassed At Growing Excitement -- J. Patrick Lewis
Gardens are made of darkness and light entwined. -- F.T. McKinstry
Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. -- Ken Wilber
Gardens are the result of a collaboration between art and nature. -- Penelope Hobhouse
Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth. -- Thomas Browne
Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another. -- Robert Harbison
The Ranelagh Gardens in Chelsea provide plenty of opportunities to walk, think and relax. -- Richard Rogers
Gardens are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade -- Rudyard Kipling
I grew up around the Luxembourg Gardens, so I guess that is my best memory. -- Emmanuelle Seigner
I am a huge fan of Jessica Lange. I think her performance in Grey Gardens is amazing. -- Boti Bliss
It's not just about facts, information and technical know how... Gardens are about time, observation and intuition. -- Costa Georgiadis
Gardens are enclosed areas in which plants and arts meet. They form 'cultures' in an uncompromised sense of the word. -- Peter Sloterdijk
That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out. -- Justina Chen
Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves. -- H. E. Bates
My favorite film involving scarves was little Edie in 'Grey Gardens.' I often wear scarves like that, under hats. -- Estelle
Gardens do offer a temporal tableau and certainly mean differently in different eras and indeed geographies (think of the formal gardens in France). -- Martha Ronk
Well, one wearies of the Public Gardens: one wants a vacationWhere trees and clouds and animals pay no notice;Away from the labeled elms, the tame tea-roses -- Sylvia Plath
Gardens can be sharp and spiky as well as rose-embowered and honeysuckle-twined: there are corners and settings where thistles are not such an asinine taste after all. -- Robin Lane Fox
I was born in Queens and spent many years there. After I got married, I moved to Kew Gardens, then moved to Baldwin, Long Island, where I still reside. -- Bob Sheppard
When State Way Gardens and The Robert Taylor Homes were being torn down, it seemed like a perfect opportunity to use that as a backdrop for the development of a super hero narrative. -- Kerry James Marshall
Anheuser-Busch gives two free cases of beer to its employees at all of its parks, like Busch Gardens. That's a comforting thought the next time you're getting ready to get on the roller coaster! -- Jay Leno
SURE-FIRE SINGLES AD: Famous Writer needs woman to organize his life and spend his money. Loves to turn off Sunday football and go to the Botanical Gardens with that special someone. Will obtain plastic surgery if necessary. -- Joe Bob Briggs
I've always found that fashion is, first of all, mainly for yourself. So my two icons are, on one side, Little Edie from 'Grey Gardens' and, of course, like all my generation, I'm influenced by Kate Moss. -- Lou Doillon
When you were a kid, if you went to the Montreal Forum or a hockey game at Maple Leaf Gardens, which I did, there was a great feeling. The new stadiums don't have it. Why don't they have it? Building codes. -- Frank Gehry
As Paradise (though of God's own Planting) was no longer Paradise than the Man was put into it, to dress it and to keep it, so nor will our Gardens remain long in their perfection unless they are also continually cultivated. -- John Evelyn
In my years of public service at both the federal and state levels, I have had the privilege of representing most of the communities that make up Congressional District 21, including Hialeah, Westchester, Doral, Kendall, Miami Lakes, Hialeah Gardens, Medley and Palmetto Bay. -- Mario Diaz-Balart
Gardening is about communication, relationships, routines and life-enrichment. Gardens are places that connect us to the seasons and the life cycle. They're a vehicle for talking about esoteric and - as far as TV goes - alien topics such as beauty and fulfilment. -- Costa Georgiadis
I asked a girl once why she was vegetarian. I said, is it because you love animals? And she replied, no it's because I had plants. To that I said, don't ever let someone take you to see the Palace Gardens- you'd both end up in jail. -- Kelly Batten
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. -- Khalil Gibran
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. -- Marianne Moore
The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens. -- Lillie Langtry
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. -- Douglas William Jerrold
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. -- Walt Disney
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? -- Wendell Berry
People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors. -- John Betjeman
I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants. -- Delia Smith
I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary. -- Jerry Saltz
I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful. -- Ed Westwick
Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives. -- Diane Ackerman
We are all familiar with the dove carrying an olive branch as a peace offering. The jewelry I've created pays tribute both to the messenger's noble mission and gardens as a refuge of peace and tranquility. -- Paloma Picasso
Milan, for me, is a city of discovery. You can find some amazing gardens behind some great houses; I also love finding beautiful galleries and incredible shops, but you have to explore. And the food is amazing. -- Francisco Costa
Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions, of years they have co-evolved to live in local climate and soil conditions. -- David Suzuki
They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love. -- Ina Garten
I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. -- Elton John
A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on. -- Katherine Dunham
Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to the eyes of passing strangers; but behind the walls of the houses, enclosed from public view, lie cherished gardens, full of the beauty of life. -- Alice Morse Earle
Apart from the most obvious cases, like the Oriental Bittersweet vine, escaped from private gardens and smothering the mountains one acre at a time, the most painful proof of man's destruction is not what you can see right in front of you; it's what you will never see again. -- Wil S. Hylton
In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created. -- Andrew Weil
I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles. -- Rachael Ray
Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked with volleyball courts and unlocked bikes and wheat-grass shots and cereal dispensers and Haribo Gummi Bears and heated toilet seats and herb gardens and parking lots with cords hanging to plug in electric cars. -- Maureen Dowd
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
I wish that every player could feel what I've felt in visiting ballparks. The receptions I've received, it's blown me away. It's absolutely remarkable -- Mark McGwire
A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables -- Gertrude Stein
The parks of Paris-the Bois de Boulogne, Parc Monceau, Vert Galant, Luxembourg, Tuileries, Buttes-Chaumont and others of varying size and fame-symbolize man's humanity to man -- Landt Dennis
In my opinion hard core gardeners, like eco-terrorists, some street gangs, and any American militia group itching for a confrontation with the FBI, have forgotten the main idea -- Lindley Karstens
Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity -- Lindley Karstens
Gardening, I told myself, is the most sociable of hobbies. The very nature of one's field of activities demands an audience. No one wants flowers to blush unseen or waste their sweetness -- Barbara Cheney
As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them -- Henry Ward Beecher
Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed -- Lewis Gannit
Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields. -- Gilbert White
the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary. -- Amy Waldman
I allow no hot-beds in the gardens of Parnassus. -- Charles Lamb
I also know that we should cultivate our gardens. -- Voltaire
Let us dig our gardens and not be elsewhere; -- Robert Linssen
The charges of building and making of gardens are unknowne. -- George Herbert
Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks. -- Ian Hamilton Finlay
The old internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens. -- John Battelle
I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens. -- Robert Wilson
Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. -- Jeremiah
Where, with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens? -- Rumi
I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens. -- Rumi
Other people have shrubbery in their gardens. You have a bottomless pit. -- Cassandra Clare
Water will, increasingly, be detained, stored and then recycled or infiltrated in gardens. -- Tom Turner
Let's all sign petitions to make Earthships and organic home gardens the normality. -- Syesha Mercado
I got involved in Gateway National Park and just became fascinated with gardens. -- Alexandra Kerry
When admiring other people's gardens, don't forget to tend to your own flowers. -- Sanober Khan
In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death. -- Sam Llewellyn
In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world. -- Stephen Gardiner
"Novels and gardens," she says. "I like to move from plot to plot." -- Bill Richardson
Novels and gardens," she says. "I like to move from plot to plot. -- Bill Richardson
I love old gardens best- tired old garden that rest in the sun. -- Henry Bellamann
And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure. -- John Milton
When you increase the number of gardens, you increase the number of heavens too! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening. -- Alexander Smith
Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept. -- Saint Francis de Sales
A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight. -- Aberjhani
Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens. -- George Lois
Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night. -- Robert Bridges
Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens. -- Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon
Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens. -- Tom Turner
The fellow who tends the greenhouse gardens? Trust me, Lady, you'd let him stake your tomatoes. -- Kristin Cashore
Somewhere, a long way away, people are doing sensible things like mowing lawns and digging gardens. -- Michael Palin
Right on to the New Period vineyard arbors were the centre and chief ornament of all gardens. -- Marie-Luise Gothein
The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That's why I have to have apartments with gardens. -- Paulo Coelho
People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens. -- Dan Barker
The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light. -- John Muir
We know that urban farms require less fuel for tractors and transport, but community gardens don't plant themselves. -- Van Jones
Everybody's got plants, but most are just growing weeds. The cultivated have greater gardens, finer and gaudier gardens. -- Peter Schjeldahl
Most folks probably think that gardens only get tended when they're blooming. But most folks would be wrong. -- Shannon Wiersbitzky
Rich people (in Australia) have swimming pools in their gardens but, at least, they do swim in them. -- George Mikes
Fashion isn't just frocks. It's how we do our houses, our gardens, it's what we eat and drink. -- Grace Coddington
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Gardening has increased, community gardens have increased significantly. There are 50 percent more community gardens right here in Washington DC. -- Michelle Obama
Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens. -- Suzy Kassem
No doubt these rocky islands have suggested the idea worked out in gardens, and they have been well imitated. -- Robert Fortune
When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard. -- Randy Houser
I sing Connecticut, her charms / Of rivers, orchards, blossoming ridges. / I sing her gardens, fences, farms, / Spiders and midges. -- Phyllis McGinley
It is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles. -- Sally Mann
Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens. -- E. O. Wilson
The peace of the gardens and the kindly lights in the windows poured a tender influence into his restless heart. -- James Joyce
Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend. -- Robert Hunter
Wise words are like seeds. The more you scatter them, the more they will grow into infinite gardens of knowledge. -- Suzy Kassem

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