Garden State is the official nickname of the state of New Jersey in the United States.
Other meanings include:
- Garden State (film), a 2004 film written by, directed by, and starring Zach Braff
- Garden State (soundtrack), the film's soundtrack
- Garden State Parkway, a toll road in New Jersey
- Garden State Discovery Museum, a children's museum in Cherry Hill, New Jersey
- Garden State Life Insurance Company, which was founded in New Jersey but is headquartered in League City, Texas
- Garden State (novel), a 1991 novel by Rick Moody
- The Garden State, a 1988 short story collection by Gary Krist
- "Garden State", a trance music track which was produced by Airbase
- "Garden State", a post-hardcore music track by Senses Fail
- a train operated by Amtrak as part of the Clocker service
- The slogan or nickname of Victoria, Australia.
Famous quotes containing the words garden and/or state:
“Or of the garden where we first mislaid
Simplicity of wish and will, forgetting
Out of what cognate splendor all things came
To take their scattering names;”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
“I am willing to pledge myself that if the time should ever come that the voluntary agencies of the country together with the local and state governments are unable to find resources with which to prevent hunger and suffering ... I will ask the aid of every resource of the Federal Government.... I have the faith in the American people that such a day will not come.”
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)