Pastoral Resources

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'

Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

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

I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening.

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.

Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.

The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.

For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

It is a good idea 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.

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.

The devout have laid out gardens in the desert.

A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.