“The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don’t want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don’t have a soul.”
― Thomas More
This is view of the planters, bench, and beaming of the front porch of the famous Gamble House in Pasadena, CA. By Mattnad via Wikimedia Commons
“The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,
One is nearer God’s heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earth.”
― Dorothy Frances Gurney
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On a Garden Bench, Szinyei Merse, Pál – (Sketch, 1873) By Fine Arts in Hungary via Wikimedia
“Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.”
― Clare Ansberry
Cozy; wooden garden bench and trellises. By Vanderlei Bailo via Wikimedia Commons
“A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.”
― Aberjhani
Renton, Washington; Waterworks Gardens grotto bench. By Joe Mabel via Wikimedia Commons
“A garden isn’t meant to be useful. It’s for joy.”
― Rumer Godden
Courtyard at “Asaoka Mamataki no. 1,” A historic stone curbed well head is re-used as the courtyard’s ‘landscape vase’ focal element. Carved stone benches create sitting alcove around the wellhead. By Tak1701d via Wikimedia Commons
“You’re not a gardener, are you? So perhaps you don’t know that once a garden is established, much of good gardening is about removal rather than planting, honing what you have to produce a pleasing effect, sacrificing the particular for the good of the whole. Gardening is a creative pastime, but the result is always a work in progress; unlike a painting or a piece of music a garden is never fixed in time.”
― Rosalie Parker
Park of Obernfelde Manor in Lübbecke, District of Minden-Lübbecke, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. TUBS via Wikimedia Commons
“I haven’t much time to be fond of anything … but when I have a moment’s fondness to bestow, most times … the roses get it. I began my life among them in my father’s nursery garden, and I shall end my life among them, if I can. Yes. One of these days (please God) I shall retire from catching thieves, and try my hand at growing roses.”
― Wilkie Collins
Glennie School netball team, Toowoomba, Queensland, 1924. Teacher posing with the 1924 girls’ netball team. The young women are arranged in a group around garden furniture in the school grounds. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland via Wikimedia Commons
“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in.”
― Greek proverb
Seems to me the Hungarian lady is knitting…
It surely does, now doesn’t it, Sylvia? A very astute observation….