Now that the April of your youth adorns
The garden of your face.
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:
All we need is some water and this whole planet would be one big, beautiful garden.
Chastity is a rose, which blossoms only in closed gardens and among thorns.
Won’t you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
Out upon you, Jerry! Jerry, you're a pity!
Jerry, turn about and plant a garden in the City!
Locke sank into a swoon;
The Garden died;
God took the spinning-jenny
Out of his side.
The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch, I am obsessed with it.
If you look very carefully, you may see a fairy in your garden
Cabbage, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
Across the empty garden-beds,
When the Sword went out to sea.