Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. Oscar Wilde
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. 
Leo Buscaglia

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. 
Dale Carnegie

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. 
Rumi

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. 
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. 
Alfred Austin

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

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. 
Walt Whitman

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. 
Gertrude Jekyll

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain. Victor Hugo
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. 
George Balanchine

I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick. 
Cy Twombly