#garden

My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery. ↗

— Allen Toussaint

#breathing #escapist #everything #garden #homegrown

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning? ↗

— Francis Cabot Lowell

#accomplish #beginning #enough #far #garden

I handed my tools. The two of them reached down to help me out of the crater I'd dug. ''Isn't that a little deep?'' Yoda asked. ''It'll help the roots get established,'' I explained. ''Established where? China? ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#digging #garden #humor #humor

It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children. ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#children #fairies #fairy #fantasy #imagination

I should not have loved my daughter as I did. Not in this world in which nothing lives for long. You children are flies. You are roses. You multiply and die. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#fever #lauren-destefano #love

The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it. ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#fairies #finish #hands #happy #house

...if she didn't learn to stop her mind racing on ahead of her she'd end up running into a mountain made of her own imaginings. ↗

— Kate Morton

#imagination

People where you live grow five thousand roses in one garden...yet they don't find what they are looking for. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#love #rose-garden #love

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. ↗

— Dogen Zenji

#attain #enlightenment #fences #plants #practice

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. ↗

— George Balanchine

#beautiful #female #flowers #garden #gardener