Noguchi Garden Quotes & Sayings

When the time came for me to work with larger spaces, I conceived them as gardens, not as sites with objects but as relationships to a whole. — Isamu Noguchi

"Glorious, stirring sight!" murmured Toad ... "The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today - in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped- always somebody else's horizons! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!" — Kenneth Grahame

Life is life.
Don't ever look back in life.
Life ahead is far better than the past. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When you're Dead ... you stay up all night long. — Kelly Link

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. — Josh Billings

And contrast Mary Kathleen, if you will, with my wife Ruth, the Ophelia of the death camps, who believed that even the most intelligent human beings were so stupid that they could only make things worse by speaking their minds. It was thinkers, after all, who had set up the death camps. Setting up a death camp, with its railroad sidings and its around-the-clock crematoria, was not something a moron could do. Neither could a moron explain why a death camp was ultimately humane. — Kurt Vonnegut

The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature. — Isamu Noguchi

People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them — Leo Tolstoy

A grateful heart is not one that is very selective and choosy about what to be grateful for. — Radhanath Swami

On a Tuesday they were wed
And by Friday they were dead
And they buried them in the churchyard side by side,
Oh, my love,
And they buried them in the churchyard side by side. — Cassandra Clare