“Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade.”

— Rudyard Kipling

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English short-story writer, poet, and novelist 1865–1936

Richard Barnfield (1574–1627) English poet

Ode http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/128.html, l. 1. Alternately, Address to the Nightingale; historically misattributed to William Shakespeare.
Poems: In Divers Humours (1598)
Context: As it fell upon a day
In the merry month of May,
Sitting in a pleasant shade
Which a grove of myrtles made,
Beasts did leap, and birds did sing,
Trees did grow, and plants did spring;
Every thing did banish moan,
Save the nightingale alone.

“I'll never sing a love song for a love that isn't true. I love how the garden grows
And I love the garden rose.”

Becky Stark (1976) American singer

Garden Rose
Imagine Our Love (2007)
Context: I'll never stop a bullet but a bullet might stop me.
I'll never drink the ocean but the ocean might drink me.
And I'll never raise a portrait to a gentle man in blue
And I'll never sing a love song for a love that isn't true. I love how the garden grows
And I love the garden rose.

“How can a bird that is born for joy
Sit in a cage and sing?”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

“All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Variant: All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
Source: Anna Karenina

“My wardrobe is like a garden
oh, I don't know how I've got the gall!
my wardrobe is just like a wardrobe —
it's not like a garden at all!”

Attila the Stockbroker (1957) punk poet, folk punk musician and songwriter

"My Wardrobe", from Cautionary Tales for Dead Commuters (1985)

“A love struck Romeo, sings a street-suss serenade;
Laying everybody low, with a love song that he made.
Finds a convenient street light, steps out of the shade
'N' says something like, "You and me babe, how about it?"”

Mark Knopfler (1949) English guitarist

Romeo and Juliet
Song lyrics, Making Movies (1980)

“The only person who could make me stop singing is the one who made me sing: God, the beauty up there!”

Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira (1949) Brazilian singer

Revista Isto é

“She was sitting in a garden more beautiful than even her rampaging imagination could ever have conjured up, and she was being serenaded by trees.”

Lynn Kurland (2000) American writer

Source: Spellweaver

“Oh, what a pretty garden.”

Ned Kelly (1855–1880) Australian bushranger

Passing through a small garden on the way to the gallows for his execution.
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“Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees
That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees,
So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray
For the Glory of the Garden that it may not pass away!”

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

The Glory of the Garden http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/english_history/glorygarden.html, Stanza 8.
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