Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“But she was inside the wonderful garden, and she could come through the door under the ivy any time, and she felt… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“Many times, while looking at the flowers, unknowingly, we may have transcended ourselves and have become a part of them, at least… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow. — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Working in the garden gives me something beyond the enjoyment of the senses. It gives me a profound feeling of inner peace. — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals. — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
I am the fonder of my garden for all the trouble it gives me, and the grudging reward that my unending labours… — Reginald Farrer Copy Share Image
“The Nature of This Flower Is to Bloom Rebellious. Living. Against the Elemental Crush. A Song of Color Blooming For Deserving Eyes.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Now summer is in flower and natures hum Is never silent round her sultry bloom Insects as small as dust are never… — John Clare Copy Share Image
“Change is a slow flower to bloom. Most of us will not see its full radiance. We plant it not for ourselves,… — Robert Jackson Bennett Copy Share Image
“The garden of the soul, she says, can be watered in several manners. The first, drawing the water up from a well… — R. Thomas Ashbrook Copy Share Image
Gardening is an excellent example of a practice to which, as Alasdair MacIntyre puts it, certain virtues are 'internal'. Good gardening requires… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
“Grow only true friends in your garden, Tansy’s spirit whispered in my head. You’ll know when you have the right ones because… — Angela Pepper Copy Share Image
“This was a valley of ashes – a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens;… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I didn't want any flowers, I only wanted To lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Sir, the year growing ancient, Not yet on summer's death nor on the birth Of trembling winter, the fairest flowers o' th'… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“For a garden is a mistress, and gardening is a blend of all the arts, and if it is not the death… — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
I have a lot of plants - my living room is like a jungle. I like the idea of bringing the outside… — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
“Our friendship is like a flower that seed is planted deep and real Blooms with sunshine and shower and will never wither… — Kaushal S. Kiroula Copy Share Image
“I think a funny picture would have a caption that read, “Believe in yourself,” with an accompanying image of a wilting flower.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Connection with gardens, even small ones, even potted plants, can become windows to the inner life. The simple act of stopping and… — Patricia R. Barrett Copy Share Image
“And not there, not there, not there, Your laughing face and your wind-blown hair Leave not even a ghost in the garden.” — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
But flowers feed our soul in a different way. They remind us of a God who creates beautiful things and takes notice… — Tricia Goyer Copy Share Image
“The master dwells in the substantial and not in the superficial. Rests in the fruit and not in the flower.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns? — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
Flower garden, depending on the size of your yard and the style of your home, may not only enhance the home atmosphere — Ian Pennington Copy Share Image
“Forge your iron; shape it by force, not into a flower you already know but into what can also be a flower… — João Cabral de Melo Neto Copy Share Image
I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In all great civilizations, garden discourses have belonged to larger discourses about beauty, the good life, the relation of humankind to nature,… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
With no mind, flowers lure the butterfly; With no mind, the butterfly visits the blossoms. Yet when flowers bloom, the butterfly comes;… — Ryokan Taigu Copy Share Image
But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there… — George Cadbury Copy Share Image
When a garden is used as a place to pause for thought, that is when a Zen garden comes to life. When… — Muso Soseki Copy Share Image
This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“I want death to find me planting my cabbages, not concerned about it or—still less—my unfinished garden.” — Nina Riggs Copy Share Image
Watering the flowers and the trees, whispering to them, talking to them. Then, they will grow to be more bright and luxuriant. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I find the world pretty overwhelming, so I'm getting into meditation and doing lots of yoga. And I love my garden, and… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
