Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death be like autumn leaves. Rabindranath Tagore What a simple thing death is, just… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
In Holland and Belgium, and afterwards in England, my happiest moments were in the country. I've always had a passion for the… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
Pity! Religion has so seldom found A skilful guide into poetic ground! The flowers would spring where'er she deign'd to stray And… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“When we reach out to pluck a flower the stem trembles, seeming both to shrink and to offer itself. The human body… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“When that part of the woman meets with a man, all the flowers in the world suddenly bloom! All the birds of… — Kim Dong Hwa Copy Share Image
“When Blomkvist alighted from his train in Hedestad for the second time, the sky was a pastel blue and the air icy… — Stieg Larsson Copy Share Image
Lady, lady, never start Conversation toward your heart; Keep your pretty words serene; Never murmur what you mean. Show yourself, by word… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Always try to grow in your garden some plant or plants out of the ordinary, something your neighbors never attempted. For you… — Richardson Wright Copy Share Image
He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads At going out, we think, and enter straight Another golden chamber… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
“Mr. Rudolph reaches out and lifts the flower out of its vase. "To a flower, this photograph means nothing. So when you… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
Autumn is the Sabbath of the year; the time to think of all the past: nature's calm twilight before the darkness. It… — Cunningham Geikie Copy Share Image
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The last of the cherry blossom. On the tree, it turns ever more perfect. And when it’s perfect, it falls. And then… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
In art class at school we learned how to draw tanks and soldiers opening fire at [Iranian leader Ayatollah] Khomeini and his… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
I have seen the glories of art and architecture, and mountain and river; I have seen the sunset on the Jungfrau, and… — George Frisbie Hoar Copy Share Image
“Spring advanced rapidly; the weather became fine, and the skies cloudless. It surprised me that what before was desert and gloomy should… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
Cell and tissue, shell and bone, leaf and flower, are so many portions of matter, and it is in obedience to the… — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
Summer, with its dog days, its vacations, its distractions, is over. We have had our holidays, our rest, our recreation. The fall… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
“It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When she liked anyone it was quite natural for her to go to bed with him. She never thought twice about it.… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In short, Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
I feel as though I'm nice and that I'm down to earth, and - people like me get taken advantage of. So… — Wendy Williams Copy Share Image
The beauty of the trees, the softness of the air, the fragrance of the grass, they speak to me. The summit of… — Chief Dan George Copy Share Image
We tiptoed the tops of beaver dams, hopped hummocks, went wading, looked at spring flowers, tried to catcha snake, got lost and… — David Sobel Copy Share Image
When you assess your own life, consider it with the eye of a gardener. Underneath the surface lies rich, fertile soil waiting… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would,… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
There is a lot of difference between offering a garland of flowers bought from a shop and one that we make out… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Borscht is more than a soup, it's a weather vane. When my family says they want hot borscht I know winter is… — Gertrude Berg Copy Share Image
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A summer breeze can be very refreshing; but if we try to put it in a tin can so we can have… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“. . . at this season, the blossom is out in full now, there in the west early. It's a plum tree,… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
“These handkerchief gardens are a traditional German solution to apartment dwellers' yearning for a tool shed and a vegetable garden. They make… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
Once we become interested in the progress of the plants in our care, their development becomes a part of the rhythm of… — Thalassa Cruso Copy Share Image
There are no idealists in the plant world and no compassion. The rose and the morning glory know no mercy. Bindweed, the… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
What do we look for as reward? Some little sounds, and scents, and scenes A small hand darting strawberry-ward A woman's aprons… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
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