Pastoral Resources

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

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

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.

Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.

I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions.

No doubt these rocky islands have suggested the idea worked out in gardens, and they have been well imitated.

The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens.

These gardens may be called the gardens of the respectable working classes.

There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries.

As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit.

In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.

In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.