Why lily?” “It’s the most sacred and beautiful of all flowers in Egypt. They bloom in mud and shine in the darkness… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
But look around at this world, how perfectly it's made. Flowers can't move, yet the insects come to them and spread their… — Nahoko Uehashi Copy Share Image
“At your birth a seed is planted. That seed is your uniqueness. It wants to grow, transform itself, and flower to its… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“Only some things are worth doing well. Most things that are worth doing are only worth doing sloppily. Many things aren't worth… — Carol Deppe Copy Share Image
“In the fable, the garden is a symbol for the mind,” said Julian. “If you care for your mind, if you nurture… — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
“The garden has wrapped itself in autumn haze. An unusual autumn, lacking that thrill of vegetal warmth when the sap is still… — Emil Dorian Copy Share Image
You have to temper the iron. Every hardship is an opportunity that you are given, an opportunity to grow. To grow is… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
You are the drop,and the ocean you are kindness,you are anger, you are sweetness,you are poison. Do not make me more disheartened.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something wrong, stop… — Dorothy Gilman Copy Share Image
Plants were bound for good or ill to their places. They expressed not only beauty but also the thoughts of God's world,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Gardening is always more or less a warfare against nature. It is true we go over to the 'other side' for a… — Shirley Hibberd Copy Share Image
This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives… — William Bligh Copy Share Image
“Agatha surveys the garden, its rows of crinkled spring cabbages and beanstalks entwining bowers of hawthorn and hazel. The rosemary is dotted… — Sarah Bower Copy Share Image
Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin names, but most people invent… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“From Koltovitch's copse and garden there came a strong fragrant scent of lilies of the valley and honey-laden flowers. Pyotr Mihalitch rode… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Dreamland's: Man Vs. WILD REFRIGERATOR! Pup tents up! Im rocking the smoke house from the ground up. PURIFIED! Im off the grid!… — Javaz Copy Share Image
I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been;… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Oh that it were with me As with the flower; Blooming on its own tree For butterfly and bee Its summer morns:… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
“A garden did not need people in order to be alive and natural. The flowers might have died, and the last leaves… — Madeline Hunter Copy Share Image
One reason we planted the White House vegetable garden was to set an example about what food can mean, but to also… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force… — Karl Blossfeldt Copy Share Image
We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“For now the world keeps turning and I keep breathing, in and out, in and out. I breathe in the life that… — Clare Furniss Copy Share Image
It's like growing lotus flowers. You cannot grow lotus flowers on marble. You have to grow them on the mud. Without mud… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. It is… — Elizabeth Fry Copy Share Image
“WE LEAVE THE DORM, and Ethan shows us the gym, where he proudly informs us that in one month he’s already doubled… — Claire LaZebnik Copy Share Image
“For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant;its blossom falls and its beauty is destroyed. In the same way,… — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
Then he kissed her, not just a brush of lips as she'd done, but a kiss a kiss that scalded her tongue.… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
“For the vast majority of our time on earth, our species did not buy its food or its clothing or its shelter… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
When people discover they are no good at baseball or hockey, they put away their bats and their skates and they take… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
A good start in life is as important to plants as it is to children: they must develop strong roots in a… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“You make springs gush forth in the valleys; they flow between the hills; 11 they give drink to every beast of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any British household with a scrap of land has always grown herbs for the kitchen. From the superb monastic herb gardens down… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
Soil is a resource, a living, breathing entity that, if treated properly, will maintain itself. It's our lifeline for survival. When it… — Marjorie Harris Copy Share Image
You remember when you were maybe five years old and you went out in the morning and you looked at the day… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
How people make gardens is bound to reflect a way of experiencing the natural world, while at the same time this experience… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
