William Morris Quotes

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.

Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend.

For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.

I create enclosed spaces mainly by means of thick concrete walls. The primary reason is to create a place for the individual, a zone for oneself within society. When the external factors of a city's environment require the wall to be without openings, the interior must be especially full and satisfying.

Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house.

Right to privacy is really important. You pull that brick out and another and pretty soon the house falls.

I have a guest house because I don't want people in my home.

Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.

One reason we planted the White House vegetable garden was to set an example about what food can mean, but to also begin a broader conversation about how we're feeding our kids, what they know about the food that they eat, how they're taking care of themselves.

Gardening as far as Gardening is Art, or entitled to that appellation, is a deviation from nature; for if the true taste consists, as many hold, in banishing every appearance of Art, or any traces of the footsteps of man, it would then be no longer a Garden.

A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.

The city mouse lives in a house, The garden mouse lives in a bower

I allow no hot-beds in the gardens of Parnassus.

A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room.

What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.

Nurturing and cherishing creation is a command God gives not only at the beginning of history, but to each of us. It is part of his plan; it means causing the world to grow responsibly, transforming it so that it may be a garden, a habitable place for everyone.

Some lawns have all the cheer of old cemeteries.

Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.

Gardening is a humbling experience.

But I have sometimes thought that a woman's nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is the hall, through which everyone passes in going in and out; the drawing-room, where one receives formal visits; the sitting-room, where the members of the family come and go as they list; but beyond that, far beyond, are other rooms, the handles of whose doors perhaps are never turned; no one knows the way to them, no one knows whither they lead; and in the innermost room, the holy of holies, the soul sits alone and waits for a footstep that never comes.

All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.

I was born in a lovely white house with a garden.