“The arts which we now call garden design and landscape design have three separate origins: sacred space, horticultural space and domestic space.… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
The horticultural industry is unimaginative and dominated by vast, supermarket-like outlets. But the small nurseries and growers remain - praise them with… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
Trees that, like the poplar, lift upward all their boughs, give no shade and no shelter, whatever their height. Trees the most… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I love you like a river that creates the right conditions for trees and bushes and flowers to flourish along its banks.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I'm an artist. Gardening is my graffiti. I grow my art. I use the garden soil like it's a piece of cloth,… — Ron Finley Copy Share Image
A wise man in China asked his gardener to plant a shrub. The gardener objected that it only flowered once in a… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
When Isaiah predicted that spears would become pruning hooks, that's a reference to cultivating. Pruning and trimming and growing and paying close… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I can grow cameras!" she had shrieked at the Brill brothers during one briefing. "Who's to say that despicable centaur Foaly hasn't… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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The morning air was like a new dress. That made her feel the apron tied around her waist. She untied it and… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Heroic figures are now obsolete,So Demigod and Devil find retreatIn minds of children - as rare beasts and men,Elsewhere extinct, persist in… — Osbert Sitwell Copy Share Image
Gardening is a long road, with many detours and way stations, and here we all are at one point or another. It's… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
“fully Westernized acorns, they went about their business with purposeful energy; and since they were midlife, baby-boomer acorns, they engaged in a… — Beatrice Chestnut Copy Share Image
“The physical stage of bonding is at its most powerful when all other forms of bonding have been achieved. If this has… — Shykia Bell Copy Share Image
Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers; In vain are dewdrops sprinkled o'er her, In vain would fond winds fan her… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit; for like as herbs… — Thomas Malory Copy Share Image
Success is like a flowerbed, It takes a lot of time and effort, Sometimes you may feel like giving up, But remember… — Rebecca Jessop Copy Share Image
Do you live in a mine field or a garden? When we live in a minefield mentality, we explode with the weeds… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
“Snowmageddon. Dirty glacial clouds hammered the city's anvil. On the District of Columbia’s northwestern edge, gusts of snow rolled across the Park… — Simon Conway Copy Share Image
Twisting and wiring and stringing starching and curling, delicately painting spots and shadings on scraps of silk until what had been nothing… — Melanie McGrath Copy Share Image
Two Seasons, it is said, exist- The Summer of the Just, And this of Ours, diversified With Prospect, and with Frost- May… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
People, houses, streets, animals, flowers-everything in Holland looks as if it were washed and ironed each night in order to glisten immaculately… — Felix Marti-Ibanez Copy Share Image
The proper education of the young does not consist in stuffing their heads with a mass of words, sentences and ideas dragged… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Humphry Repton, the leading garden theorist of the nineteenth century, defined a garden as 'a piece of ground fenced off from cattle,… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
“But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Because I liked you better Than suits a man to say, It irked you, and I promised I'd throw the thought away.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you do not have a loving concern for the environment... it will no longer sustain you - you will not be… — Seth Copy Share Image
Things that influence me are my kids, their happiness, colorfulness, and vitality. My husband - he comes up with some great quotes… — Mary Engelbreit Copy Share Image
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Winter is not an end. It is in transit. It is headed to bankruptcy. The sheriff will sell its stock for what… — William Alfred Quayle Copy Share Image
Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower But 't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not envy the owners of very large gardens. The garden should fit its owner or his or her tastes, just… — Gertrude Jekyll Copy Share Image
“Physically, gardens must have boundaries. Mentally, they can reach to the limits of the known universe. The ideas that bestow such vast… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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