“In the classic successional course, each suite of plants replaces its predecessor, until the arrival of the final, “climax” ecosystem, usually tall… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
If you sprinkle a path of rose petals on the floor...you could make a trip to the bathroom look romantic. — Lacey Copy Share Image
“The more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think the same is true of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces…” — Maquita Donyel Irvin Copy Share Image
The fig tree is known as the 'hypocrite tree.' It looks mature & ripe from far away, but its looks can be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you… — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct. — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
“O loosen the roots of thy affections from the world, and the tree will fall more easily.” — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
As I hold the flower in my hand and think of trying to describe it, I realize how poor a creature I… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again,… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
... the most fiendish plant I know of, the sort of thing Beelzebub might pluck to make a bouquet for his mother-in-law… — Edward Augustus Bowles Copy Share Image
“In the general course of things, when beauty passes, the flower bows its head upon the stem and fails. Sometimes, though, when… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“I wish that friend were you, Beast. Please come with me. We’ll take the flower to my father together. We’ll make him… — Vivienne Savage Copy Share Image
The earth with yellow pearsAnd overgrown with roses wildUpon the pond is bent,And swans divine,With kisses drunkYou drop your headsIn the sublimely… — Friedrich Holderlin Copy Share Image
A marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If I had a single flower for every time I think of you, I could walk forever in my sweet garden of… — David Kreger Copy Share Image
And let these altars, wreathed with flowers And piled with fruits, awake again Thanksgivings for the golden hours, The early and the… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived. — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Mary doesn’t waste opportunities; she plants seeds over the ages. Sometimes it can take centuries for these seeds to come to fruition.” — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
Spirit is a land of high white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers. Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Until we’re pushing up daisies, it might be good to remind ourselves daily that everything’s coming up roses — for me and… — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
If you look close ... you can see that the wild critters have 'No Trespassing' signs tacked up on every pine tree. — Marguerite Henry Copy Share Image
This bud of love by summers ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet -William Shakespeare — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellows grave, or the glass flowers at… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man's contribution to the community. — Richardson Wright Copy Share Image
The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
“UNDERSTANDING makes LOVE to NOURISH, BLOSSOM like a flower in the morning summer day.” — Bonakala Bsac Copy Share Image
“One winter morning Peter woke up and looked out the window. Snow had fallen during the night. It covered everything as far… — Ezra Jack Keats Copy Share Image
“Once you've spent a winter buried in the Alpine snow foraging for food, it's hard to complain over heat.” — Karen Essex Copy Share Image
All in November's soaking mist We stand and prune the naked tree, While all our love and interest Seem quenched in the… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
The birth and rebirth of all nature, / The passing of winter and spring, / We share with the life universal, /… — Doreen Valiente Copy Share Image
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
“The oak tree is firm and elegant and upright. The weeping willow has allowed the burdens of life to bend it.” — Panache Desai Copy Share Image
You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way. — Walter Hagen Copy Share Image
“In the winter, the snow had become glittery fairy dust that had given all the creatures of the meadow warm clothes and… — Carla Reighard Copy Share Image
“One day is all the days, and when it is summer, it has always been summer, and when it is winter, the… — Rebecca Hahn Copy Share Image
