A wee child toddling in a wonder world.... I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan.__Zitkala-Sa
Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.__Saint Francis de Sales
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.__Douglas Jerrold
Imaginary gardens with real toads in them.__Marianne Moore's definition of poetry, "Poetry," Collected Poems, 1951
Kind hearts are the gardens; Kind thoughts are the roots; Kind words are the flowers; Kind deeds are the fruits; Take care of your garden; And keep out the weeds; Fill it with sunshine; Kind words and kind deeds; __Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh.__Judah Ibn Tibbon
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.__Marianne Moore
Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwrecks.__Robert Louis Stevenson
