Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France, had such an aversion to roses that she could not stand seeing one… — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“It was a human storm, composed of a thunder of cries, and a hail of sweetmeats, flowers, eggs, oranges, and nosegays.” — Alexander Dumas Copy Share Image
The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things. — John Muir Copy Share Image
“ Spring and Autumn Every season hath its pleasures; Spring may boast her flowery prime, Yet the vineyard's ruby treasures Brighten Autumn's… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
Everybody's got plants, but most are just growing weeds. The cultivated have greater gardens, finer and gaudier gardens. — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
When bad things happen, it's the time when you get to work in the garden and sort out the pots from the… — Elizabeth Hurley Copy Share Image
“Should've known when I met her mama. The big, fat acorn didn't fall too far from the big, fat tree.” — Johnny Shaw Copy Share Image
summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. for those few months, you’re not required to… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“Change is a slow flower to bloom. Most of us will not see its full radiance. We plant it not for ourselves,… — Robert Jackson Bennett Copy Share Image
Two years ago, I was saying as I planted seeds in the garden, "I must believe in these seeds, that they fall… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
The function of the rebel is to shake the fixated mores of the rigid order of civilization; and this shaking, though painful,… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Is it birthday weather for you, dear soul? Is it fine your way, With tall moon-daisies alight, and the mole Busy, and… — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Lord of the springtime, Father of flower, field and fruit, smile on us in these earnest days when the work is heavy… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
“Researcher Richard Wiseman, in his article “The Luck Factor,” says that if you are an apple picker and you keep coming back… — Shawn Achor Copy Share Image
The air aint foreign, then it aint worth breating, if we can understand it then it aint worth reading, if its too… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have always felt that the best gardens aspired to coppice and that the best woods have all the elements of the… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
Destroy the seed and the plant will never grow. Man alone, of all creatures of earth, can change his thought pattern and… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“Bare-root, dormant roses are planted in early spring, when the soil is workable and severely freezing weather is over. In milder climates,… — Maggie Oster Copy Share Image
What's good about March? Well, for one thing, it keeps February and April apart. — Walt Kelly Copy Share Image
“A tree that is planted by the riverside blossoms all through because its environment has taking it beyond the realm of seasons.” — Ikechukwu Izuakor Copy Share Image
Every since it started snowing, my little brother has been looking through the window, guess it's high time I let him inside — Avalon Copy Share Image
I look for myself but find no one. I belong to the chrysanthemum hour of bright flowers placed in tall vases. I… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
If a garden is well maintained and neatly landscaped, there must be a dedicated and efficient gardener. — Mr. Lee Copy Share Image
Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I look at our tree, at its leaves still reaching for the sun, still working to turn light into food. They don't… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower. — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world. — Jack London Copy Share Image
No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I hardly have any spare time! But when I do, I garden a lot - I love plants and flowers. — Soundarya Copy Share Image
October's gold is dim — the forests rot, The weary rain falls ceaseless, while the day Is wrapped in damp. — David Gray Copy Share Image
Flowers swing by the breeze that blows in the evening just like your love makes me dance, sing and get excited each… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“A single red bucket dangled from a single spoke like the last fruit of summer, or like autumn's final leaf.” — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I stared at the enormous homes, the landscaping and flower beds immaculate. It was as if dollar bills, instead of leaves, hung… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
