If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul the director of his life.

In garden arrangement as in all other kinds of decorative work one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge then we're gonna be led down a garden path.

He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.

The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did.

Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process yet war force terror and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

For all their current prestige Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished my piece of land will be a beautiful garden so there is a lot of work.

I live in literally the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.

The earth is my altar the sky is my dome mind is my garden the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea I'm always at Om.

Your home is regarded as a model home your life as a model life. But all this splendor and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come a word can be spoken and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

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.

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never in any case regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener I'm convinced of the opposite.

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

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism pride hardness and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.