Summer: waking up to the sound of the lawnmower, never wearing more than a baithing suit, campfires, late-night swims, staying out past… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As the skipping rope hit the pavement, so did the ball. As the rope curved over the head of the jumping child,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
“And slowly the snow began to melt. First, doing a number on children's constructions; Then retreating to the foundations of barns and… — Craig Thompson Copy Share Image
Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The organic gardener does not think of throwing away the garbage. She knows that she needs the garbage. She is capable of… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
All of us are called by something in this world that attracts us. And it doesn't matter what it is - you… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
First you must find... another shrubbery! (dramatic chord) Then, when you have found the shrubbery, you must place it here, beside this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A grower of chrysanthemums awaited a visit from the emperor, who was coming to enjoy his blossoms, of which there were hundreds… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Plants are decisive to a fault. A stem produces a bud that flowers once and once only. It offers pollen that is… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
“The pure whiteness, dazzling in the sun, was one of the most beautiful things I had ever seen. Who was I to… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
It was her first book, an indigo cover with a silver moonflower, an art nouveau flower, I traced my finger along the… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
A tulip doesn't strive to impress anyone. It doesn't struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn't have to. It is… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Balenciaga taught me everything I know. He taught me to care for the details, that it was not necessary to sew on… — Hubert de Givenchy Copy Share Image
Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children. Consider the silent influencewhich flowers… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Did you ever consider how ridiculous it would be to try to cram on a farm—to forget to plant in the spring,… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
The trees change their voices in autumn as well as their shapes. No longer do they whisper to one another in muffled… — Patience Strong Copy Share Image
I grew up in Southern California. If it's snowing on a day I'm supposed to train, I'll just stare out the window… — Chloe Kim Copy Share Image
“I thought, how magical, the first glimspe of snow. By March I would be sick of it, but here in this November… — Beatriz Williams Copy Share Image
I think of love and marriage in the same way I do plants: We have perennials and annuals. The perennial plant blooms,… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
When I stand at the top of the Champs-Elysées, with its chestnut trees in flower, its undulations of shining cars, its white… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
“Final Disposition Others divided closets full of mother's things. From the earth, I took her poppies. I wanted those fandango folds of… — Jane Glazer Copy Share Image
Gardening can be a compelling cooperative activity. Your best harvest may be the pleasure you get from working with family and friends.… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“On the whole it is certainly not necessary. Nothing can better defend us than nature itself, which has let certain flowers and… — Jacob Grimm Copy Share Image
To have Zen is to be in a state of pure sensation. It is to be freed from the grip of concepts,… — Alan Keightley Copy Share Image
Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“Early December saw the first of the great blizzards of that year. The wind howling down out of the Canadian wilds a… — Jean Shepherd Copy Share Image
What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“We were all born to be peaceful citizens of the world. Take care of your global garden and do not allow evil… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
One arranges flowers as the spirit moves you; to obey some inner prompting to put this colour with that, to have brilliance… — Constance Spry Copy Share Image
Her delight in the smallest things was like that of a child. There were days when she ran in the garden, like… — Alexandre Dumas-fils Copy Share Image
The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to… — E B White Copy Share Image
“Honest Winter, snow-clad, and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; But that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
I hated roses. I hated them for being so trite, so clichéd, a default, all-purpose flower that said I love you, I'm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image