June marked the end of spring on California's central coast and the beginning of five months of dormancy that often erupted in… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You might think a seed was finished and done with when it… — Elizabeth Groudge Copy Share Image
Four people wheel out a huge wedding cake from a side room. Most of the guests back up, making way for this… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“Finally we reach the end of the camp where the kitchens stood. A round concrete ring rises out of the earth, maybe… — Matthew A. Rozell Copy Share Image
I love games like 'Flower,' for example - I thought this was amazing. It's great, it's new, it's different, and it's invented… — David Cage Copy Share Image
“Winter reveals the massive, complex, muscular organization of the ancient oak. Like an old man stripped of his Savile Row, tailored suit… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
When you understand spiritual law, then you realize that everything you give, good or bad, will in fact come back to you… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Wan February with weeping cheer, Whose cold hand guides the youngling year Down misty roads of mire and rime, Before thy pale… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God, first fill your own house with the fragrance of… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To the Taoist mentality, the aimless, empty life does not suggest anything depressing. On the contrary, it suggests the freedom of clouds… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention; and what… — Wisdom and Destiny Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“MAN'S mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or… — James Allen Copy Share Image
'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noises and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“At home in Moscow everything was in its winter routine; the stoves were heated, and in the morning it was still dark… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet ... the evenings in late… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I have raised beds, perennial beds, cut flower beds. I have an island on a pond that's just covered in peonies. I… — Steve Zahn Copy Share Image
You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
In London the day after Christmas (Boxing Day), it began to snow: my first snow in England. For five years, I had… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
You are a flower crushed beneath the feet of the animal that is concealed in a human being. Take comfort, in that… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I saw them; there is nothing beautiful about them, just that they are a little higher than the others. Referring to one… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Steam rising underneath a canopy of whispering, changing aspens; starlight in the clear, dark night, and wondrous beauty in every direction. If… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
The sun goes down long and red. All the magic names of the valley unrolled - Manteca, Madera, all the rest. Soon… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Spring's an expansive time: yet I don't trust March with its peck of dust, Nor April with its rainbow-crowned brief showers, Nor… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
In winter, play with the snow; in summer, play with the Sun! Do not wait for something to come; everything is already… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“I can see some of the roses still blooming in my mother´s garden. Brown on the edges and bright in other colors,… — Laura Nowlin Copy Share Image
“It was a night of early spring, The winter-sleep was scarcely broken; Around us shadows and the wind Listened for what was… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
When one is total, life flowers - and that flowering is spirituality. Spirituality is not an attitude, it is not a discipline.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“There was just a thin fall of powdery snow in the air. It came onto their hats, not seeming to fall as… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward a bed… — Stephen M. Irwin Copy Share Image
“All at once the hard, cold earth seemed to explode. The brown surface of the world dissolved and in its place was… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“The winter was not really winter at all, and therein may lie Key West's greatest charm. If one does not have to… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Carrie was a terrific piece of work. At the end of the movie comes, when Amy Irving kneels down to put the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Now, whereas we do not find it hard to accept the beauty of a flower for itself alone, in present-day, mechanical-industrial civilization,… — Paul Outerbridge Copy Share Image
