Pastoral Resources

My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.

So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.

I walk my dogs. I garden a little. I play a bit of tennis. Basically when I have spare time I'm making music.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.

They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.

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

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

My agent was ambitious for me. But going out and chasing it? No, I'd rather work in my vegetable garden or play with my kid. I guess I'm kind of boring.

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?

I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.

When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.