A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP
Gardening Quotes
The writer with the most entries is Alfred Austin, the Victorian poet laureate, whose The Garden That I Love (1894) is the main source: show me your garden, provided it is your own, and I will tell you what you are like. Tennyson, Gertrude Jekyll, Cowley and Marvell follow. Milton’s Il Penseroso (1631) has leisure taking its pleasure in trim gardens.
Three entries are flagged. A line about the glory of gardening, hands in the dirt and head in the sun, is credited to Austin and is disputed; it sounds more like a modern caption than something from 1894. A verse about Adam and Eve planting another garden is credited to Edward German, and Bismarck is credited with a joke about the Dutch and the Irish; both are marked misattributed.
Most quoted on gardening:
A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
Over the years Ida had fattened up. She sort of spread, like a garden gone wild.
"I love gardens that feel alive. A little wild. Romantic. Abundant."
Speech without word and
Word of no speech
Grace to the Mother
For the Garden
Where all love ends.
But still a Ruby kindles in the Vine,
And many a Garden by the Water blows.