God Almighty first planteda garden; and indeed, it isthe purest of human pleasures.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.46,'Of Gardens'.

And the L God planted a garden eastwards in Eden; and there he put the manwhom he had formed. And out of the ground made the L God to grow every tree that is pleasant for the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDGenesis 2:8^9.

And when the woman saw that the tree wasgood for food, and that it waspleasanttothe eyes,and atreetobe desired to make one wise she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also to her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them bothwere opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the L God walking inthegarden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the L God amongst the trees of the garden.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDGenesis 3:6^8. In the GenevaBible of1560, the word'aprons'was rendered'breeches', and the versionwas therefore known as the Breeches Bible.

   A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Song of Solomon 4:12.

I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A chapel was built in the midst Where I used to play on the green.

-Blake,William
  Songs of Experience,'The Garden of Love'.

The courts of Europe are a jungle, compared to which your jungles here are a well-kept garden.

-Bolt, Robert Oxton
  Linedeliveredby Ray Mc Anally as Cardinal  Altamirano in The Mission.

When Adam and Eve were dispossessed Of the garden hard by Heaven, They planted another one down in the west, 'Twas Devon, glorious Devon!

-Boulton, Sir Harold Edwin
  'Glorious Devon'.

There is a garden in her face, Where roses and white lilies grow, A heavenly paradise is that place, Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow. There cherries grow, which none may buy Till 'Cherry ripe!'themselves do cry.

-Campion,Thomas
  Fourth Book of  Airs,'There is a Garden in her Face'.

The Muses'garden, with pedantic weeds O'erspread, was purged by thee; the lazy seeds Of servile imitation thrown away, And fresh invention planted.

-Carew,Thomas
  'An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of Paul's, Dr.  John Donne'.

The gallows in my garden, people say, Is new and neat and adequately tall.

-Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)
  'Ballade of Suicide'.

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

-Cowley, Abraham
  Essays, in Verse and Prose,'The Garden'.

   Let 'Dig for Victory' be the motto of everyone with a garden and of every able-bodied man and woman capable of digging an allotment in their spare time.

-Doram-Smith, Sir Reginald Hugh
  Radio broadcast, 3 Oct.

So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she- bear coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, and the Garyulies, and the Grand Panjandrumhimself, withthelittleround buttonat top; and they all fell to playing the game of catch-as- catch-can till the gunpowder ran out of theheels of their boots.

-Foote, Samuel
Responding to a challenge from the actor Charles Macklin that there was no speech he could not repeat from memory after just one hearing. Macklin had to acknowledge defeat. Foote's phrases 'no soap'and 'the grand Panjandrum' became widely adopted. Quoted in Maria Edgeworth Harry and Lucy (1825), vol.2.

The kiss of the sun for pardon, The song of the birds for mirth, One is nearer God's Heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth.

-Gurney, Dorothy Frances
  'God's Garden'.

My VanGoghisbetter than Irises.Ihavethewholegarden.

-Hammer, Armand
On ranking his own Van Gogh, Hospital at Saint-Re¤  my, over the Irises that brought »53.9 million at auction. In Connoisseur,  Jan 1991.

Our England is a garden that is full of stately views, Of borders, beds and shrubberies and lawns and avenues, With statues on the terraces and peacocks strutting by; But the Glory of the Garden lies in more than meets the eye.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'The Glory of the Garden'.

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing:ö'Oh, how beautiful!'and sitting in the shade, While better men than we go out and start their working lives At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'The Glory of the Garden'.

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! 474

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'The Glory of the Garden'.

I have a garden of my own, But so with roses overgrown, And lilies, that you would it guess To be a little wilderness.

-Marvell, Andrew
c.1650^1652  'The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn' (published1681).

Oh thou, that dear and happy isle The garden of the world ere while, Thou paradise of four seas, Which heaven planted us to please, But, to exclude the world, did guard With watery if not flaming sword; What luckless apple did we taste, To make us mortal, and thee waste?

-Marvell, Andrew
c.1650^1652  'Upon  Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax' (published1681), stanza 41.