In gardens it's not just plants and insects and microbes that grow. People grow too, and the best bit is that they… — Costa Georgiadis Copy Share Image
For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between… — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
A miraculous healing awaits this planet once we accept our new responsibility to collectively tend the Garden, rather than fight over the… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
“Watch batteries gleam in the center of dark flowers. Henna painted with conductive ink, waiting to be turned on.” — Alex Livingston Copy Share Image
“History doesn't remember gardens. … You forgot the wise administrators, those who kept the peace, those who brought prosperity. You needn’t feel… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
“Eden is within you; it is your life's garden. It is from this internal garden that you experience your external life. If… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“He made two or three peculiar observations; as when shewn the botanical garden, 'Is not EVERY garden a botanical garden?” — James Boswell Copy Share Image
“He felt it deep, like a stone too big to heft out of the garden. He just had to how around it… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
“Somewhere, in some shadowy bedroom of a leaf-strewn town, a father bolts the door to a child's room, then steps closer to… — Scott Heim Copy Share Image
“Without imagination---without creativity---without courage---the best prairie restorations don't happen. The rewards don't always come in our lifetime... . We work, knowing we… — Cindy Crosby Copy Share Image
If 'heartache' sounds exaggerated then surely you have never gone to your garden one rare morning in June to find that the… — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
“In Summer there were white and damask roses, and the smell of thyme and musk. In Spring there were green gooseberries and… — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
“The wood lay still. The air throbbed with insects, and flies hovered and disappeared and hovered. Meadowsweet grew in a mist of… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
In the midst of the happiness they brought there was always a lurking shadow. The shadow of incompatibility; of the impossibility of… — Dorothy Richardson Copy Share Image
I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. .… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“One cannot analyse the character of European gardens without looking beyond the Mediterranean. This is because horticulture, palace life and city-building developed… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
Genius is a native to the soil where it grows - is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun; and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I've never really understood the criticism that climbing is inherently selfish, since it could equally be argued about virtually any other hobby… — Alex Honnold Copy Share Image
Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Everyone is entitled to a home where the sun, the stars, open fields, giant trees, and smiling flowers are free to teach… — Jens Jensen Copy Share Image
All things are symbols: the external shows Of Nature have their image in the mind , As flowers and fruits and falling… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Reading books about gardens is a potent pastime; books nourish a gardener's mind in the same way as manure nourishes plants.” — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
“I now call trees "tree beings," flowers and shrubs "plant beings," and lakes and rivers "water beings." They are as alive as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Pluck thou my flower, Oothoon the mild; Another flower shall spring, because the soul of sweet delight Can never pass away.” — William Blake Copy Share Image
I grew up at my grandmother's house and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding,… — Elton John Copy Share Image
The park grass looked greener, the park benches looked better and the flowers were trying harder. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“As the flowers are all made sweeter by the sunshine and the dew, So this old world is made brighter by the… — Bonnie Parker Copy Share Image
Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the… — Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon Copy Share Image
You know the way that children play make-believe in the garden? I did that and I thought, 'This will do for life.… — Harry Treadaway Copy Share Image
Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower ; the earth is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind, Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring,… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
In Eastern lands they talk in flowers, And they tell in a garland their loves and cares; Each blossom that blooms in… — James Gates Percival Copy Share Image
Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning — Charles Rennie Mackintosh Copy Share Image
All those who run away to ashrams, thinking they are doing something great are just performing daily chores there - cooking, gardening… — Tanushree Dutta Copy Share Image
For I shall learn from flower and leaf, That color every drop they hold, To change the lifeless wine of grief To… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
“Come O' winter knock my door, Make me fall in love once more, Look what Autumn did to me, Made my soul… — Neymat Khan Copy Share Image
Then amongst flowers and springs, Making delightful sport, Sat lovers without conflict, without flame — Torquato Tasso Copy Share Image
![“In Summer there were white and damask roses, and the smell of thyme and musk. In Spring there were green gooseberries and throstles [thrush], and the flowers they call ceninen [daffodils]. And leeks and cabbages also grew in that garden; and between long straight alleys, and apple-trained…” quote by Beatrix Potter](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/520/beatrix-potter-11097_flowers_in-summer-there-were-white-and-damask-ro_3143068.jpg)
