#garden

Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#about #all day #away #breeze #buds

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#beautiful #done #everything #finished #flat

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, 'If wet, in the library.' Who could say that this is bad? ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#bad #before #better #brandy #chair

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? ↗

— Douglas Adams

#believe #bottom #enough #fairies #garden

But then something was happening to Justin that, to his excitement and alarm, he was unable to control. He had been drawn completely by accident into a beautiful play, and was captivated by it. He was in a different element, acting a part, and the part was the one he had often wanted to play in life, but never till now quite brought it off. ↗

— John le Carre

#beauty

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#after #cannot #devoid #done #either

It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot. ↗

— Judah Philip Benjamin

#effort #fire #gardener #human #human effort

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories. ↗

— Eric Brown

#between #book #day #five #garden

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#always #better #flowers #food #happier

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#friend #garden #rose #single #world