“Spring was becoming summer, not yet the oppressive heat of July and August, but sweaty days that were harbingers. Of course, now… — J.M. Redmann Copy Share Image
There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
The speckled sky is dim with snow, The light flakes falter and fall slow; Athwart the hill-top, rapt and pale, Silently drops… — John Townsend Trowbridge Copy Share Image
Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
Almost every morning when I go to the studio to work, I discover a fresh rose in the bud vase on my… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
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“California loosestrife: A flowering herb native to California with long spikes of purple flowers whose soapy, herbal aroma inspires strength in the… — Meg Donohue Copy Share Image
“Of course, fall isn't just about preparing for winter. It's also about sitting on the patio in a worn wool sweater and… — Brent Olson Copy Share Image
All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You first have an instinct, then an opinion, thena knowledge, as the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803â1882 Copy Share Image
Look upon yourself as a tree planted beside the water, which bears its fruit in due season; the more it is shaken… — Margaret Mary Alacoque Copy Share Image
You can create substances with other naturally grown substances and you can synthesize beautiful bouquets of flowers without spending an arm and… — Horst Rechelbacher Copy Share Image
My family suffered. My hair turned up in every corner, every drawer, every meal. Even in the rice puddings Tessie made, covering… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Reap your harvest. (Benefits) You have been sowing seeds on good soil. (Working Hard) Your garden is overflowing abundantly.(Successful) Now is the… — Amaka Imani Nkosazana Copy Share Image
But then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“By lunchtime the valley was lightly coated, like a cake with confectioner's sugar...there was white fur on the antlers of the iron… — Elizabeth Enright Copy Share Image
Go, mark the matchless working of the power That shuts within the seed the future flower; Bids these in elegance of form… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states,… — Robert Fortune Copy Share Image
Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
Poison or elixir, narcotic or aphrodisiac, whatever it was, this flower, relic of a day in the life of an accidental writer,… — Cesar Aira Copy Share Image
Jeane Dixon tells us that May and June are going to be pretty bad. June may be worse than May. But everything… — Rose Mary Woods Copy Share Image
“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Stilletos of a frozen stillicide [...] In the lovely line heading this comment the reader should note the last word. My dictionary… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
It is spring time now! While the world looks for a new war to fight, you look for a cherry blossom to… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People talk about the 1960s in a nostalgic way, but to me it was terrifying. People were getting assassinated. There was Vietnam.… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
The difference between me and a butterfly is that the butterfly looks at a flower with no purpose in mind but to… — Densey Clyne Copy Share Image
Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appears, with considered judgement, bears the light… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back. In most of our human relationships, we spend much… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours; and yet how… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A Short Story of Falling It is the story of the falling rain to turn into a leaf and fall again it… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
On rolls the stream with a perpetual sigh; The rocks moan wildly as it passes by; Hyssop and wormwood border all the… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods, And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt, And night by night… — William Allingham Copy Share Image
She danced the dance of flames and fire, and the dance of swords and spears; she danced the dance of stars and… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
It is far better to limit our choice to real permanencies, which do not require staking... and a general mixture throughout of… — Graham Stuart Thomas Copy Share Image
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The seed of a bamboo tree is planted, fertilized and watered. Nothing happens for the first year. There´s no sign of growth.… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
“Flowers magnetize us with their beauty and reflect back to us our own essence. Their qualities magnify positive aspects of ourselves. They… — Katie Hess Copy Share Image
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