In March and in April from morning till night In sowing and seeding good housewives delight. — Thomas Tusser Copy Share Image
Two people could look at the same flowers and feel differently about them. Why not? I'm not making ads. I couldn't care… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
“Miss Kelly, perhaps you'd like this flower. I seem to have misplaced my buttonhole.” — Elwood P. Dowd Copy Share Image
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-pettalled flowers dancing on swirling winds. — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That would have to be important. How fast did a forest’s heart beat? Once a year, maybe. Yes, that sounded about right.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“SKIRTING the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,) Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance of the eagles, The… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
There is that within a man that drives him ever onwards, just as the power of the seasons drives the roots of… — Tom Holt Copy Share Image
It was a day in early spring; and as that sweet, genial time of year and atmosphere calls out tender greenness from… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Ginger is often called a root, but it is actually a rhizome, which means it is an underground stem that sends shoots… — Sohla El-Waylly Copy Share Image
I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows, The timid, bashful violet Or the royal-hearted rose: The… — Phoebe Cary Copy Share Image
Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word,… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Roses! I swear you men have all your romance from the same worn book. Flowers are a good thing, a sweet thing… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“A tree is not concerned about the number of its fruits that fall to the ground, but the number of their seeds… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
If you have a little extra parking, I err on the side of getting rid of it in favor of having some… — Michael King Copy Share Image
You here like butterfly roam and roam in the orchard of roses and flowers are looking for useful and you give all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Two sturdy oaks I mean, which side by side, Withstand the winter's storm, And spite of wind and tide, Grow up the… — Staci Hart Copy Share Image
“Purple salvia: A flowering herb in the mint family with upright spikes of violet blooms whose earthy, herbal scent enhances concentration” — Meg Donohue Copy Share Image
California, where the spring comes in the fall and the fall comes in the summer and the summer comes in the winter… — Inez Haynes Irwin Copy Share Image
No doubt these rocky islands have suggested the idea worked out in gardens, and they have been well imitated. — Robert Fortune Copy Share Image
“The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grow stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
“The falling snow was like confetti made of glass." - The Chosen, by Kristina Ohlsson” — Kristina Ohlsson Copy Share Image
without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
And as much as I do believe in paying homage to those who have gone, let's give people their love while they're… — Big E Copy Share Image
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
“It's crazy to hate all the roses because one punctured you. Give up all your dreams because one of them did not… — Saint Exupery Copy Share Image
Words and thoughts concerning compassionate action that are not put into practice are like beautiful flowers that are colorful but have no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hoeing: A manual method of severing roots from stems of newly planted flowers and vegetables. — Henry Beard Copy Share Image
I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it. — Confucius Copy Share Image
The dandelion's pallid tube Astonishes the grass, And winter instantly becomes An infinite alas. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes roses are wanted for a specific purpose or a special reason. The following selections are somewhat personal and arbitrary, but should” — Maggie Oster Copy Share Image
