#gardens

I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural. ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#complete #example #extravagance #far #for example

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

#bank #card #dishwasher #done #first

I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#came #collaboration #course #designed #garden

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#gardens #sadness #two #wall

I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens. ↗

— Elton John

#beautiful #gardening #gardens #i #i can

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#beautiful #gardens #how #made #oh

The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#gardens #gladness #lasting #me #most

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

#chef #cooking #end #gardens #happen

What wondrous life in this I lead Ripe apples drop about my head ↗

— Andrew Marvell

#joy #life

It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children. ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#children #fairies #fairy #fantasy #imagination