Don't waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come.Mario Quintana
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.Jim Rohn
I've lived in small rooms, flats, growing plants in pots on window sills. I'd have liked to have had a full-fledged garden with all kinds of flowers and plants. I've never had enough money to buy a big enough garden space.Ruskin Bond
In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.Andrew Weil
I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens.Elton John
I spend as much time as I can in my garden, and if I'm not writing songs or gardening, I'm painting.Chris Rea
When I go into the garden, I forget everything. It's uncomplicated in my world of gardening. It's trial and error, really. If something doesn't work, it comes out, and you start all over again.Emilia Fox
I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.Jacqueline Bisset
No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.J. Carter Brown
I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.Beau Bridges
My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.Ina Garten
The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.Gertrude Jekyll
One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?Francis Cabot Lowell
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.James Douglas
The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.Stephen Gardiner
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.Marcelene Cox
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.Roberto Burle Marx
Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time.Peter Zumthor
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.Gertrude Jekyll
I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.Robert Bridges
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.Robert Louis Stevenson
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?Wendell Berry
Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?Alfred de Vigny
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.Joseph Addison
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.May Sarton