“the flowers of the morning glory. They bloom and smile every morning, fade and die in a few hours. How fleeting and… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
No matter where you are you can grow something to eat. Shift your thinking and you'd be surprised at the places your… — Greg Peterson Copy Share Image
There are no idealists in the plant world and no compassion. The rose and the morning glory know no mercy. Bindweed, the… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
What do we look for as reward? Some little sounds, and scents, and scenes A small hand darting strawberry-ward A woman's aprons… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
“These handkerchief gardens are a traditional German solution to apartment dwellers' yearning for a tool shed and a vegetable garden. They make… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
In love, treat your relationship as if you are growing the most beautiful flower. Keep watering it, tend to its roots, give… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The writing I have in mind and sometimes indulge in myself is concerned, not with plants, mountains or birds as items of… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
“A well-managed plant, I soon learned, is a quiet place. A factory that is “dramatic,” a factory in which the “epic of… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“In reminiscing about the area between Augusta and Wilkes County in Georgia one writer remarked: The grand groves of oak and hickory… — Sam Bowers Hilliard Copy Share Image
The deadnettle is the Punxsutawney Phil of the plant world: short of stature but stout of heart. At the first hint of… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
“And finally it seemed autumn had realized it was September. The last lingering days of summer had been pushed off stage and… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“I was a vegetarian of sorts," he replied, "but the difference between animal and vegetable isn't as clearly defined on my home… — Lucy Snyder Copy Share Image
Always try to grow in your garden some plant or plants out of the ordinary, something your neighbors never attempted. For you… — Richardson Wright Copy Share Image
At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements… — Egon Schiele Copy Share Image
“Without their chloroplasts plants would be left like the rest of us, to eat what they find. Instead they hold out their… — Rob Dunn Copy Share Image
“The garden flourished that summer because Magnus's mother was determined to feed her family despite the depredations of the distant war. In… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
Spirituality points, always, beyond: beyond the ordinary, beyond possession, beyond the narrow confines of the self, and - above all - beyond… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
“You told me once of t he plants that lie dormant through the drought; that wait, half dead, deep in the earth.… — Lucy Christopher Copy Share Image
But well-a-day, the gardener careless grew, The maids and fairies both were kept away, And in a drought the caterpillars threw Themselves… — William Browne Copy Share Image
“Plants are acutely aware of the world around them. They are aware of their visual environment; they differentiate between red, blue, far… — Daniel Chamovitz Copy Share Image
A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close… — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
“It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each… — Kilgore Trout Copy Share Image
The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid… — Eliot Coleman Copy Share Image
From the sexual, or amatorial, generation of plants new varieties, or improvements, are frequently obtained; as many of the young plants from… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that… — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
To Nature the dweller in the Nile valley linked all that was dear to him: his happiest fetes, poetry, and love -… — Marie-Luise Gothein Copy Share Image
“It was not as beatific as one might imagine to live under continuous precipitation in a desert. The ground, instead of enjoying… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that the only flowers to… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
The columbine ... is a graceful slender creature, a female seeking retirement, and growing freest and most graceful where it is most… — Dorothy Wordsworth Copy Share Image
It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
“I could make a strong, if not conclusive, case for the idea that plants are more intelligent than people—more beautiful, more pacific,… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
If there were as great a scarcity of soil as of jewels or precious metals, there would not be a prince who… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The country ever has a lagging Spring, Waiting for May to call its violets forth, And June its roses-showers and sunshine bring,… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Look at this vigorous plant that lifts its head from the meadow, See how its leaves are turned to the north, as… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
As some species of plants need to be burned to the ground in order for them to later flourish, I needed to… — Xeno Muller Copy Share Image
“The wind I hear it sighing, with autumn's saddest sound; withered leaves all thick are lying, as spring-flowers on the ground. This… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
“And the ritual of Prayer embraces all these movements: (a) There is the ascending, vertical movement which corre- sponds to the faithful's… — Henry Corbin Copy Share Image
Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“...Want to know why my roses grow dead on a living vine? Prayer against civil war. Let us hate with a single… — Robin Schiff Copy Share Image
