Quotes by Garden I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall. Arthur Conan Doyle wall garden house Zen is to religion what a Japanese "rock garden" is to a garden. Zen knows no god, no afterlife, no good and no evil, as the rock-garden knows no flowers, herbs or shrubs. It has no doctrine or holy writ: its teaching is transmitted mainly in the form of parables as ambiguous as the pebbles in the rock-garden which symbolise now a mountain, now a fleeting tiger. When a disciple asks "What is Zen?", the master's traditional answer is "Three pounds of flax" or "A decaying noodle" or "A toilet stick" or a whack on the pupil's head. Arthur Koestler garden flower teaching The camera has its own kind of consciousness; in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect. Arthur Miller garden photography eden If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening. Arthur Smith falling-in-love garden long Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert. Arthur Young rocks garden men Imagine that half the world is hidden from you. Half of the person sitting across from you has never been appreciated, half of the garden has never been seen or smelled, half of your own life has never been truly witnessed and appraised. Arthur Zajonc garden sitting half Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range. Artur Schnabel mountain-ranges garden light My wardrobe is like a garden oh, I don't know how I've got the gall! My wardrobe is just like a wardrobe it's not like a garden at all! Attila the Stockbroker wardrobe know-how garden In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit? Aubrey Beardsley garden tears book My goal was not to have huge luxuries. As a child, I wanted a house with a garden, which I have today. This is what I dreamed of. I’d never worry about age if I knew I could go on being loved and having the possibility to love... So it isn’t age or even death that one fears, as much as loneliness and the lack of affection. Audrey Hepburn garden loneliness children There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop. Augustus William Hare smell garden flower We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors. B. B. King garden animal needs In the garden of thy heart, plant naught but the rose of love. Bahá'u'lláh garden rose heart The day after the attack, governor, I stood in the Rose Garden and I told the American people and the world that we are going to find out exactly what happened. That this was an act of terror and I also said that we're going to hunt down those who committed this crime. Barack Obama garden rose people I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over. Barbara Bush able garden want I don't think we'll ever know all there is to know about gardening, and I'm just as glad there will always be some magic about it! Barbara Damrosch garden justice thinking Far more gardens fail because the gardener is absent or not paying attention than because he or she lacks erudition. Yes, you need to know your ABCs [the basics], but the more you garden, the more you'll learn what works and what doesn't. Barbara Damrosch garden attention needs Good gardening is very simple, really. You just have to learn to think like a plant. Barbara Damrosch garden simple thinking Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child. Barbara Damrosch quality garden children I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls - their riches - in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison garden cities travel «345678910111213»