Mahler wrote it as the third movement of his Fourth Symphony. I mean the fourth movement of his First Symphony. We play… — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
“it takes a village to build success in publishing a book - it takes friends that are willing to help - it… — Rich Okun Copy Share Image
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it at the bud. Creativity… — Alex Faickney Osborn Copy Share Image
I dreamed you were standing in this dark place and you touched these dead flowers and they lit up like they were… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
There is another sort of day which needs celebrating in song -- the day of days when spring at last holds up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I know love," Says the littlest one. "Love is like a flower." "Why is love a flower? Little one tell me." "Love… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of a man springs from the hidden… — James Allen Copy Share Image
If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant after all:… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
“There now,” she said to the flowers in an encouraging tone, “you have food and air. You’ll be very happy and pretty… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
When loud by landside streamlets gush, And clear in the greenwood quires the thrush, With sun on the meadows And songs in… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Spring is made of solid, fourteen-karat gratitude, the reward for the long wait. Every religious tradition from the northern hemisphere honors some… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If things are tough, remember that every flower that ever bloomed had to go through a whole lot of dirt to get… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
There is an herb named in Latine Convolvulus (i.e. with wind), growing among shrubs and bushes, with carrieth a flower not unlike… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Trees endure the hot sun and rainstorms by sending their roots down deeper. The adversity they face is eventually the source of… — John Bevere Copy Share Image
I'm just very much in love with love. I have this fairy-tale idea of what love should be, and I want it… — Joss Stone Copy Share Image
“Love for trees pours out of her—the grace of them, their supple experimentation, the constant variety and surprise. These slow, deliberate creatures… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
When the bee has gathered the dew of heaven and the earth's sweetest nectar from the flowers, it turns it into honey,… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
“Dark rocks stood waiting to be sculpted by the wind. Tiny seeds rode the air, waiting to fall and take root. Under… — Deborah Lawrenson Copy Share Image
A beautiful blossom is a fleeting thing It stays for a moment and then takes wing: With special rays we catch it… — Albert Richards Copy Share Image
“Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another! Not calculable by algebra, not deducible by logic, but mysterious, effectual, mighty… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
And yet one arrives somehow, finds himself loosening the hooks of her dress in a strange bedroom-- feels the autumn dropping its… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire. And burns in meadow-grass the phlox His torch of purple… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
“I read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,' said Priscilla. 'Then your soul is a golden narcissus,' said Anne, 'and Diana's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The bed of flowers Loosens amain, The beauteous snowdrops Droop o'er the plain. The crocus opens Its glowing bud, Like emeralds others,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers; How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd, Cramp'd, cringing in… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem… it is… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
