Creativity is no less challenging or exciting when the mystery is stripped from the creative process. The most beautiful flowers grow under… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“But at the end of February, out of a cold black north a dozen meandering snowflakes fell. They drifted about the air… — Nan Shepherd Copy Share Image
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It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Silence of the heart is necessary so you can hear God everywhere - in the closing of the door, in the person… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Over lowland, over snow and tundra span arches, raised by the rising sun. See: the light is winning! And the stream is… — Einar Skjaeraasen Copy Share Image
The year is ended, and it only adds to my age; Spring has come, but I must take leave of my home.… — Su Ting Copy Share Image
But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
Autumn is the American season. In Europe the leaves turn yellow or brown, and fall. Here they take fire on the trees… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies. "They're straight… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
“But in truth there was more expression in the flower than was yet in the face. The flower expressed what God was… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
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A tree is alive, and thus it is always more than you can see. Roots to leaves, yes-those you can, in part,… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
In our city spring came from the sky, not from the soil, which was ruled by stone that recognizes no seasonal change.… — Ismail Kadaré Copy Share Image
In the light of consciousness all sorts of things happen and one need not give special importance to any. The sight of… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
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I had always been aware that the Universe is sad; everything in it, animate or inanimate, the wild creatures, the stones, the… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
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My inability to keep a plant alive is a source of great amusement for my friends. It's pathetic, embarrassing. I mean, I… — Angela Scanlon Copy Share Image
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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
When people come up and give me a compliment... I take each remark as if it were a flower. At the end… — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
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Now if I believe in God's Son and remember that He became man, all creatures will appear a hundred times more beautiful… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“In one picture, the pool was half hidden by a fringe of mace- weeds, and the dead willow was leaning across it… — Clark Ashton Smith Copy Share Image
Nothing is more clear than that Christ cannot be explained by any humanistic system. He does not fit into any theory of… — Loraine Boettner Copy Share Image
Whoever uses psychedelics should treat them with greatest respect. When Aldous and I used them, we prepared the ambience and ourselves the… — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
He was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud; Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With bur-docks, hemlock,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
For the best building and planting...the architect and gardener must have some knowledge of each other's business, and each must regard with… — Gertrude Jekyll Copy Share Image
You write your books. You scatter your seeds. Rats might eat them, or they might rot. In California, some seeds lie dormant… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
If you are feeling more yourself, there is a problem best addressed immediately," said the queen. "In my nightshirt?" The king wriggled,… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
I was raised a Catholic, but with very liberal parents, so I had to find my spirituality. I've been looking for it… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The garden rose may richly bloom In cultured soil and genial air, To cloud the light of Fashion's room Or droop in… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
[T]he blossom of benevolence, of charity, is the fairest flower, no matter whether it blooms by the side of a hovel, or… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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