A too closely watched flower/blossoms the wrong color./Excess attention to the jonquil/turns it gentian. Flowers/need it tranquil to get/their hues right. Some/only… — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
As white snowflakes fall quietly and thickly on a winter day, answers to prayer will settle down upon you at every step… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
A flower can't grow without rain. (Alexion) Too much rain and it drowns. (Danger) And yet the most beautiful of the lotus… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
If we become uncomfortable in any given moment, we can look at a flower, a pebble in the street or the tire… — Barry Neil Kaufman Copy Share Image
“He lay flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Know who you are, then you can know where you can be! Choose your environment wisely; but be sure you know your… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us,… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
A seed is really something spiritual as much as it is something material. It contains a life spark that allows the regenerative… — Gary Paul Nabhan Copy Share Image
It gives you a good feeling. Each year, you rediscover in a garden the magic of life. A flower arrives, and it… — Hubert de Givenchy Copy Share Image
When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“October arrived, spreading a damp chill over the grounds and into the castle. Madam Pomfrey, the nurse, was kept busy by a… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Love, in this world, is like a seed taken from the tropics, and planted where the winter comes too soon; and it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If gardeners will forget a little the phrase, "watering the plants" and think of watering as a matter of "watering the earth"… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
“Shed no tear! oh, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more! oh, weep no more! Young buds… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Flowers, cold from the dew, And autumn's approaching breath, I pluck for the warm, luxuriant braids, Which haven't faded yet. In their… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
...it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its brow of the flower and retell it… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
In preparing the soil for planting, you will need several tools. Dynamite would be a beautiful thing to use, but it would… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
“This rose is not so fragrant as a summer flower, but it has stood through hardships none of them could bear: the… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
...tell me the word that will win you, and I will speak it. I will speak the stars of heaven into a… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
He has an armload of irises and daisies and tulips and he presents them to me. I didn't know what kind of… — Carrie Jones Copy Share Image
The wind is tossing the lilacs, The new leaves laugh in the sun, And the petals fall on the orchard wall, But… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
“Grass that is here today and gone tomorrow does not require much time to mature. A giant oak tree that lasts for… — Henry T. Blackaby Copy Share Image
Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world. If dandelions were hard… — Andrew Mason Copy Share Image
A short distance away is the Tidal Basin, ringed by cherry trees that every year produce flowers, an event to which Washingtonians… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Though it was the end of February, the day was a lazy sort of cold. The sun slipped through the cloud in… — Erika Robuck Copy Share Image
Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“What're you reading?" "Gertrude Stein." I shook my head. I'd never heard of her. "The poet?" he asked. "You know, 'A rose… — Vanessa Diffenbaugh Copy Share Image
Life has left her footprints on my forehead. But I have become a child again this morning. The smile, seen through leaves… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Like the lotus flower that is born out of mud, we must honor the darkest parts of ourselves and the most painful… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
“I went outside mournful, and I hit pure air. The air was full of birdsong. I went outside expecting rain but it… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“roses. You’ll enjoy both the scent and the flowers as you relax and entertain. Planting roses around the mailbox or lamp post… — Maggie Oster Copy Share Image
“a dry maple leaf has come off and is falling to the earth; its movement is exactly like a butterfly's flight. Isn't… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
In the parallel universe the laws of physics are suspended. What goes up does not necessarily come down, a body at rest… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Ever since Blessed Alan de la Roche re-established this devotion the voice of the people, which is the voice of God, called… — Louis de Montfort Copy Share Image
“Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse;… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“So I went up north to a land of palm trees and mangroves like malignant growths in the mud-filled throats of the… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
