“She lays the book face down on her chest. Already her bedroom (no, their bedroom) feels more densely inhabited, more actual, because… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Winter is coming, Elena," he said, and his voice was clear and chilling even over the howling of the wind, "An unforgiving… — L.J. Smith Copy Share Image
“Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! One thing at least is certain - This Life flies; One thing is certain… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price;… — Robert Fortune Copy Share Image
She's as fetching as brown hair done up with ribbons blue The mountain, my lady She's as sweet as pink flowers made… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“Art is at present the only construction complete unto itself, about which nothing more can be said, it is such richness, vitality,… — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I think there is such a thing as a bad seed that comes to flower in certain people. The danger with that… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
There was only - spring itself, the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere; in the sky,… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Now let us gather into one bouquet, from the King's garden, these seven fragrant flowers: Jesus the Son of God; Jesus our… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
Let it not be death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Let the flight through the sky… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
“The forest has been growing for hundreds of years. Each time a child is born, a tree is planted. You could see… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
O what a flowery track lies spread before me, henceforth! What dust clouds shall spring up behind me as I speed on… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
For more than thirty years, Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd have been gardening with extraordinary, indeed legendary, results. Part memoir, part omnium-gatherum… — Philip Gambone Copy Share Image
How I loved the feasts!… I especially loved the processions in honor of the Blessed Sacrament. What a joy it was for… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own. When one becomes… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
“Krishnamurti, a great Indian sage, once said: “You can take a piece of wood that you brought back from your garden, and… — Julien Smith Copy Share Image
When we walk slowly, the world can fully appear. Not only are the creatures not frightened away by our haste or aggression,… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
And London shops on Christmas Eve Are strung with silver bells and flowers As hurrying clerks the City leave To pigeon-haunted classic… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
Ideas are like seeds, apparently insignificant when first held in the hand. Once firmly planted, they can grow and flower into almost… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“The blossoms seem unusually lovely this year. There were none of the scarlet-and-white-striped curtains that are set up among the blossoming trees… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“August 21. ... I've become pretty good at telling weeds fom not-weeds. But every once in a while I have my doubts.… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“It could snow We don’t take care. The end of November came without coldness, with haunting and limp rains, pretty much leaves… — Philippe Delerm Copy Share Image
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
How beautiful, buoyant, and glad is morning! The first sunshine on the leaves: the first wind, laden with the first breath of… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“She is holding on tight to this talk of flowers, as I did before, when I was afraid and alone. If you… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
Each day the storm clouds were opening like great purple flowers and pouring out their dark thunder. Each nightfall, the storm was… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
In my opinion hard core gardeners, like eco-terrorists, some street gangs, and any American militia group itching for a confrontation with the… — Lindley Karstens Copy Share Image
My sister Emily loved the moors. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her; out of… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
A flower doesn't count the number of bees that come nor does it pump up its smell just when you walk by.… — John Douillard Copy Share Image
I’d want our wedding to be special. I don’t have a dress, you don’t have a best man, and instead of flowers,… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Don't everlastingly read messages into paintings - there's the Daisy - you don't rave over or read messages into it - you… — John Marin Copy Share Image
“Up in Shirley Falls, spring was slower to arrive. Nights were cold, but the way the dawn light cracked open along the… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
You can never have too much sky . You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
