Gardens

Gardens are planned spaces, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The garden can incorporate both natural and man-made materials. The most common form today is known as a residential garden, but the term garden has traditionally been a more general one. Zoos, which display wild animals in simulated natural habitats, were formerly called zoological gardens. Western gardens are almost universally based on plants, with garden often signifying a shortened form of botanical garden.

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• Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother,
  And half the platform just reflects the other.
  The suff'ring eye inverted nature sees,
  Trees cut in statues, statues thick as trees;
  With here a fountain never to be play'd,
  And there a summer-house that knows no shade.
  • Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (1731-35), Epistle IV, line 117.

• Come into the garden, Maud,
  For the black bat, night, has flown.
  • Alfred Tennyson, Maud; A Monodrama (1855), XXII. 1.

• Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, nihil deerit.
  • If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
  • Cicero, Ad Familiares IX, 4, to Varro.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 307.

• God Almighty first planted a garden.
  • Francis Bacon, Of Gardens.

• My garden is a lovesome thing—God wot!
  Rose plot,
  Fringed pool,
  Fern grot—
  The veriest school
  Of peace; and yet the fool
  Contends that God is not.—
  Not God in gardens! When the sun is cool?
  Nay, but I have a sign!
  'Tis very sure God walks in mine.
  • Thomas Edward Brown, My Garden.

• God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
  • Abraham Cowley, The Garden, Essay V.

• My garden is a forest ledge
  Which older forests bound;
  The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge,
  Then plunge to depths profound!
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson, My Garden, Stanza 3.

• One is nearer God's heart in a garden
  Than anywhere else on earth.
  • Dorothy Frances Gurney, God's Garden.

• An album is a garden, not for show
  Planted, but use; where wholesome herbs should grow.
  • Charles Lamb, In an Album to a Clergyman's Lady.

• I walk down the garden paths,
  And all the daffodils
  Are blowing, and the bright blue squills.
  I walk down the patterned garden-paths
  In my stiff, brocaded gown.
  With my powdered hair, and jewelled fan,
  I too am a rare
  Pattern. As I wander down
  The garden paths.
  • Amy Lowell, Patterns.

• And add to these retired Leisure,
  That in trim gardens takes his pleasure.
  • John Milton, Il Pensoroso, line 49.

• A little garden square and wall'd;
  And in it throve an ancient evergreen,
  A yew-tree, and all round it ran a walk
  Of shingle, and a walk divided it.
  • Alfred Tennyson, Enoch Arden, line 731.

• The garden lies,
  A league of grass, wash'd by a slow broad stream.
  • Alfred Tennyson, Gardener's Daughter, line 40.

• The splash and stir
  Of fountains spouted up and showering down
  In meshes of the jasmine and the rose:
  And all about us peal'd the nightingale,
  Rapt in her song, and careless of the snare.
  • Alfred Tennyson, The Princess (1847), Part I, line 214.

• A little garden Little Jowett made,
  And fenced it with a little palisade;
  If you would know the mind of little Jowett,
  This little garden don't a little show it.
  • Francis Wrangham, Epigram on Dr. Joseph Jowett. Familiarly known as "Jowett's little garden." Claimed for William Lort Mansel and Mr. Horry.