#garden

Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its composition, it’s appearance, to human design and effort, human conventions and convenience, and the human pursuit of that elusive, indefinable harmony that we call beauty. It has a life of its own, an intricate, willful, secret life, as any gardener knows. It is only the humans in it who think of it as a garden. But a garden is a relationship, which is one of the countless reasons why it is never finished. ↗

— W.S. Merwin

#beauty

It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em," said Captain Jim. "When I ponder on them seeds I don't find it nowise hard to believe that we've got souls that'll live in other worlds. You couldn't hardly believe there was life in them tiny things, some no bigger than grains of dust, let alone colour and scent, if you hadn't seen the miracle, could you? ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#life-after-death #resurrection #seeds #spring #death

I get the, you know, 'In my generation, we all had victory gardens, we all participated in this country's success.' It's that kind of sentiment that I hear from everybody, that we're all in this together. ↗

— Patty Murray

#everybody #gardens #generation #get #had

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#believe #desert #freedom #garden #guts

I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There. ↗

— Blythe Danner

#being there #favorite #favorite films #films #gardener

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds. ↗

— Martha Smith

#best #i #i do #pulling #some

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden. ↗

— Robert Southey

#animal #animal world #garden #kitten #world

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#everything #garden #library #need #you

I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig. ↗

— E. P. Thompson

#become #coming #dig #garden #going

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#art #creating #gardens #imaginary #real