“Some part of me remembers what snow is, but this is the first time my new mind has seen it. It softens… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
“The planting is reserved for those who come after us and have the foresight to bring seed. I only clear the ground… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of… — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow, And humbler growths as moved with… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
The heart was a weak, changeable thing, bent on nothing but love, and there could be no more fatal mistake than to… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I had been educated in the rhythms of the mountain, rhythms in which change was never fundamental, only cyclical. The same sun… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
I don't have a gardener because I enjoy pulling weeds. It's hard to explain but there is something fulfilling about pulling out… — Justin Hartley Copy Share Image
Happiness is within you... so unlock the chains from your heart and let yourself grow- like the sweet flower you are. I… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
But before he went loopy he was the life and soul of the party," said Fred. "He used to down an entire… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
September is a sweep of dusky, purple asters, a sumac branch swinging a fringe of scarlet leaves, and the bittersweet scene of… — Jean Hersey Copy Share Image
“Every Easter she and her mother planted those crocuses near the fence beside the driveway, and soon enough a whole cluster of… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a Flower Police, so please feel free to experiment. Or stick with one type of flower;… — Clinton Smith Copy Share Image
A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Centre placed? Or ever marked the… — Ovid Copy Share Image
I have never lied about my relationship with Bill Clinton. The only proven liar, at this point, and the only admitted liar,… — Gennifer Flowers Copy Share Image
People love in different ways. You may have a man who brings you flowers every Monday but doesn't give two hooty-hoots about… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. And they grew next to each other. And every… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Think beyond the vase! If you have a vase of flowers on a dining table for a quick dinner party, think about… — Clinton Smith Copy Share Image
“This was the place that shaped Arthur, this backwater, where the deep British past persisted the way scraps of winter snow last… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“The proper way to eat a fig, in society, Is to split it in four, holding it by the stump, And open… — dh lawrence Copy Share Image
I love the idea of the winter rose that's sort of sleeping underneath the soil. Underneath all the snow is this plant… — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
A man who can do everything fully consciously becomes a luminous phenomenon. He is all light, and his whole life is full… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Ephemerals: That's what Hub called them; flowers that bloomed and died in a matter of weeks, before the trees leafed out and… — Pamela Todd Copy Share Image
Can anything compare to the sight of the first yellow violets blooming along a woodland path? These most fragile of plants are… — Howard Evans Copy Share Image
Visiting gardens is bad for you. Not only does it encourage too much eating of cake but sets up all kinds of… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Not even much survives as memory. Many of the most notable names of the summer—Richard Byrd, Sacco and Vanzetti, Gene Tunney, even… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Some fifteen years ago in London there was an exhibition of the works of a certain sculptor, which contained many sane and… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration,… — Ian Hamilton Finlay Copy Share Image
As our Father makes many a flower to bloom unseen in the lonely desert, [let us] do all that we can do,… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
“A driving snow-storm in the night and still raging; five or six inches deep on a level at 7 A.M. All birds… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“They cleared swiftly, dramatically, like a stage set or a movie; we went from black to stunning blue, the day emerging at… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
Everyone knows that weeds eat out the life of the garden and of the productive fields. It's like that in the building… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
Government has to be cut back like asparagus... every day... or it gets away and goes to seed. Ours did. When there's… — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
“There's a time in some years, after the first frosts, when the sun gets hot again, and summer returns for a time.… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant… — Roberto Burle Marx Copy Share Image
Wise cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization, and the best result which life has to offer us,--a cup for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image