98 Quotes About Gardens

Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.

Gardens are made of darkness and light entwined.

The older a wizard grows, the more silent he becomes, like a woody vine growing over time to choke a garden path, deep and full of moss and snakes, running everywhere, impenetrable.

I search for idyllic retreats where I could escape from rigors of my daily life. That’s the only way I could find my soul, that wanderer that refuses to be tethered to me.

A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens. Wisdom grows not by sitting in peace and solitude in meditation, but by confronting the storms of the past, and studying what triggered them so that we can prevent them from happening again.

Why do we keep believing that we can control nature,even as it banishes us repeatedly from our homes in search of new fertile ground?

A gardener is like a prophet looking out on a barren land and saying, ‘I see corn on that hill, and beans beneath the grove, and lavender in the field, and over there some roses by the brick wall.’ Don’t you think that’s what a good friend should be like? A truly good friend is one who can look at our bare lives and see the fruit of what will one day come from deep inside us.

Stone gnomes and angels filled the gardens, and it seemed that they were also sleeping, as though a witch had cast a spell on them.