Pastoral Resources

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

These wrestlers aren't organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There's a lot of drama there.

How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.

Gardening is not a rational act.

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

That is, the only reason salvation is necessary is to get us back to the garden. The Pentateuch not only presents where we began but also why we are not there any more, and why and how we need to get back.

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

I never promised you a rose garden.