We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
Obviously, I don't want to be stagnant in any area, so anywhere, any place I can get to grow, I'm going to… — Leighton Vander Esch Copy Share Image
If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me.. For I have blossomed so much,… — Rumi Copy Share Image
If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I… — Magdi Yacoub Copy Share Image
Hawthorn, white and odorous with blossom, framing the quiet fields, and swaying flowers and grasses, and the hum of bees. — F. S Flint Copy Share Image
How sickly grow, How pale, the plants in those ill-fated vales That, circled round with the gigantic heap Of mountains, never felt,… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thought unexpressed- that… — Goethe Copy Share Image
And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“The green garden, moonlit pool, lemons, lovers, and fish are all dissolved in the opal sky, across which, as the horns are… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It was at this time I learned that the human mind is a blackened overgrown place. Society tries to mow the lawn… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“The arbutus is now open everywhere in the woods and groves. How pleasant it is to meet the same flowers year after… — Susan Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
I grow savager and savager every day, as if fed on raw meat, and my tameness is only the repose of untamableness.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“The world beyond the hidden garden vanished from her awareness. There was only this place, this patch of Eden, sunny and quiet… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
“On December the twenty-third, the park was hazy from clammy mists that muted and softened all color and distance. Michael had not… — Martine Bailey Copy Share Image
Plant growing in temperate climates. The beautiful flower panicles that appear for several months emit a sweet honey fragrance that will be… — Alan Summers Copy Share Image
I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in… — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
A garden is the mirror of a mind. It is a place of life, a mystery of green moving to the pulse… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place. — Eve Best Copy Share Image
There is something about a fresh flower arrangement that just livens up a room with beautiful colors, textures, and scent. — Kendra Scott Copy Share Image
We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax, the bugs and weeds of negativity… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Through primrose tufts, in that sweet bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand. — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
In a twilight garden, when a brown nightingale starts singing, what is left to a blonde chicken is to remain silent. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“It all goes around It all goes around The planet goes around the sun It all goes around My mother said it… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
The gossamer web of life, spun on the loom of sunlight from the breath of an infant Earth, is nature's crowning achievement… — Preston Cloud Copy Share Image
I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while I'm doing gardening in upstate New York. Their music is so languid,… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
If you wish to enrich days, plant flowers; If you wish to enrich years, plant trees; If you wish to enrich Eternity,… — S. Truett Cathy Copy Share Image
I just do my own thing, and my flower continues to blossom like one of those delicious Bloomin' Onions from Outback Steakhouse. — Willam Belli Copy Share Image
I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a… — Janet Erskine Stuart Copy Share Image
A warm, rainy day-this is how it feels when friends get together. Friend refreshes friend then, as flowers do each others, in… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Yes, I'd love to have a garden of my own--spacious, and full of everything that is fragrant and flowering. But if I… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The work of a garden bears visible fruits-in a world where most of our labours seem suspiciously meaningless. — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
