With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
Lope de Vega
A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
Henri Frederic Amiel
What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.
Elizabeth von Arnim
Always remember the beauty of the garden, for there is peace
Unknown
All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden
Reginald Farrer
Friends are flowers in life's garden
Unknown
A garden is a friend you can visit any time
Unknown
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden
Thomas Jefferson
The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world
Vita Sackville-West
One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race
Wendell Berry
Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irespective of size or wealth.
Vita Sackville-West
Nothing is more the child of art than a garden
Sir Walter Scott