G is for GARDENS

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

Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

All gardens are a form of autobiography.

Robert Dash

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is,

I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.

Robert Bridges

I walk down the garden paths,
And all the daffodils
Are blowing, and the bright blue squills.
I walk down the patterned garden paths
In my stiff, brocaded gown.
I too am a rare
Pattern. As I wander down
The garden paths.
Amy Lowell



In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.
Sam Llewelyn

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.

Mrs. C.W. Earle

My garden is a forest ledge
Which older forest s bound;
The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge,
Then plunge to depths profound!
Ralph Waldo Emerson



A garden, sir, wherein all rainbowed flowers were heaped together.
Charles Kingsley

No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden.

Hugh Johnson

The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.

Hanna Rion

My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.

Abram L. Urban

Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?

Betsy Cañas Garmon

It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.

James Douglas

I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Despite the gardener's best intentions, Nature will improvise.

Michael P. Garafalo

Take thy plastic spade,
It is thy pencil; take thy seeds, thy plants,
They are thy colours.
William Mason



It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Robert Louis Stevenson

One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.

W.E. Johns