"Show me your garden, provided it be your own, and I will tell you what you are like."
A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the cultivation, display, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The single feature identifying even the wildest wild garden is control. The garden can incorporate both natural and artificial materials.
"Bright, big-blossomed roses delight the eye, herbs provide s for all ailments, berry bushes supply fruit for s, vegetables go into the indispensable evening soup, and many exotic plants, gifts from long ago, revert to their primal condition."
"The splash and stir Of fountains spouted up and showering down In meshes of the jasmine and the rose: And all about us peald the nightingale, Rapt in her song, and careless of the snare."
"We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die."
"How well the skilful Gardner drew Of flow’rs and herbs this Dial new; Where from above the milder Sun Does through a fragrant Zodiack run; And, as it works, th’ industrious Bee Computes its time as well as we. How could such sweet and wholsome Hours Be reckon’d but with herbs and flow’rs!"
"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."
"Consult the genius of the place in all, That tells the waters or to rise, or fall, Or helps thambitious hill the heavns to scale, Or scoops in circling theatres the vale, Calls in the country, catches opening glades, Joins willing woods, and varies shades from shades, Now breaks, or now directs, thintending lines, Paints as you plant, and, as you work, designs."