“Outside the house, against a sheltered wall to the south, a single stalk of green thrust upwards, with slender rapierlike leaves and… — Elizabeth George Speare Copy Share Image
What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Proper praying is like a person who wanders through a field gathering flowers-one by one, until they make a beautiful bouquet. In… — Nachman of Breslov Copy Share Image
I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't… — Craig Johnston Copy Share Image
“I sought her eye, desirous to read there the intelligence which I could not discern in her face or hear in her… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is,… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“A week before, snow had been forecast. Snow was gathering in the north and would, by the weekend, come down on the… — Peter Maughan Copy Share Image
There do remain dispersed in the soil of human nature divers seeds of goodness, of benignity, of ingenuity, which, being cherished, excited,… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Still others make gardens because it is part of a full life. To live happily they must invest their hours and aspirations… — Richardson Wright Copy Share Image
We liked to be known as the clever girls. When we decorated our hands with henna for holidays and weddings, we drew… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
All about us, in earth and air, wherever the eye or ear can reach, there is a power ever breathing itself forth… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer—one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Lavender lilies all dotted with spots. Sun-yellow daffodils clustered in pots. Blue morning-glories climb trellises high. Powder-white asters like stars in the… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
In treating of the oak, I have considered that the species of it growing in warm climates is superior to that which… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
The gardener's work is never at at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground,… — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
Chinese bamboo. A tree that grows really tall - to a height of over eighty feet. It takes around five years and… — Prakah Iyer Copy Share Image
“On a nightstand in a teenager’s room, a glass vase filled with violets leans precariously against a wall. The only thing saving… — Jay Nichols Copy Share Image
Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your… — John Fante Copy Share Image
I like this whole part. The snow is snowing and the wind is blowing but I can weather the storm! What do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed,-chased and hunted down as… — John Muir Copy Share Image
With spring the father-sky remakes the world: The male shower has flowed into the bride, Earth's body; then shifted through sky and… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God on this world about us. He has inscribed His thoughts… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Catch me, Seth," she invited. He paused. "Faeries chase," he said, an then , with a flirtatious smile, he turned away, but… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
Respect, of course is a tricky term. I may respect your gardening by just letting you get on with it. Or, I… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
Nick spoke for the first time. "Can I go to the nurse's office too?" Ms. Popplewell looked at him It obviously took… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
This storm you talk of . . .t will be such a one, my son, as the world has not seen before.… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
My God is the green tide in the spring leaves the redness of cherries high in the air the excitement of shooting… — William of Ockham Copy Share Image
His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A flower is a daisy chain, a graduation, a valentine; a flower is New Year's Eve and an orchid in your hair;… — Jean Hersey Copy Share Image
“a flower knows, when its butterfly will return, and if the moon walks out, the sky will understand; but now it hurts,… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“Ideas begin their life as small seeds, so light they may drift through the air like dust motes. If a human is… — Rahma Krambo Copy Share Image
“The tree you behold, so fresh and alive, whose fruit seems to come without delay, has in reality been patiently maturing for… — Kamaran Ihsan Salih Copy Share Image
The imitator treads a beaten walk, and with all his diligence can only find a few flowers or branches untouched by his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I watched a rose-bud very long Brought on by dew and sun and shower, Waiting to see the perfect flower: Then when… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
“Flowers need plenty of water and sunshine to grow. Love, too, needs attention and affection, or else it slowly withers away from… — Kerri Maniscalco Copy Share Image
The Best Things In Life Are Free Sunshine, songs of birds, the blue heavens, sunrise, the sea air, the field full of… — Alfred Armand Montapert Copy Share Image
Here even the various mind-pleasing blossoming flowers, and attractive shining supreme golden houses, have no inherently existent maker at all. They are… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
