Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.

Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

I've got everything I need: a nice piece of land with hawks and owls and incredible sunsets, and the good will of my neighbors.

The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.

I'm content with life, and I'm finally at that place where I feel relaxed and can really enjoy what's going on around me.

I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head.

The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That's why I have to have apartments with gardens.

I love being in the garden, and my 'chilling-out room' is almost like being out there.

I like having peace and quiet in my life, and I am perfectly happy in my relationships.

I'm happier in a garden.

And the tree was happy

Ah! happy is the man whose early lot Hath made him master of a furnish'd cot; Who trains the vine that round his window grows, And after setting sun his garden hoes; Whose wattled pails his own enclosure shield, Who toils not daily in another's field.

I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.

A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.

If asked my philosophy, it would be simply this: Savor life, don't press too hard, don't worry too much.

I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.

One day in the country Is worth a month in town

Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.