“Oh, Heidi! Heidi!” Marta exclaimed at last. “This is your garden. I know it even though you have not told me. Do you suppose in Heaven it is any more beautiful than this?””I sometimes think that Heaven is all around us, if we only have eyes to see it,” Heidi said softly.”And on the Alm too?” questioned Marta.”Yes, and in Dorfli. Even in the chateau which seems so gloomy now. There must be a little Heaven there as well. And if not, Marta, why not make it so?”
— Charles Tritten
“A story is a garden you carry in your pocket. The stories we tell ourselves and each other are for pleasure and refuge. Like gardens they are small places in a large world. But, Jinhua, we must never mistake the stories we tell for truth.”
— Alexandra Curry
“A story is a garden you can carry in your pocket. The stories we tell ourselves and each other are for pleasure and refuge. Like gardens they are small places in a large world. But, Jinhua, we must never mistake the stories we tell for the truth.”
— Alexandra Curry
“Why do we keep believing that we can control nature,even as it banishes us repeatedly from our homes in search of new fertile ground?”
— Maria Rodale
“A passionate look, touch or a hug on a plant is enough to open your inner eyes than going for a serious yoga and other therapies”
— Karthikeyan V
“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