If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is,… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
There do remain dispersed in the soil of human nature divers seeds of goodness, of benignity, of ingenuity, which, being cherished, excited,… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
“Down at the old house, I’ve made a serious effort to rejuvenate what was once my garden and lawn. And I’ve been… — Megan Lindholm Copy Share Image
May, queen of blossoms, And fulfilling flowers, With what pretty music Shall we charm the hours? Wilt thou have pipe and reed,… — Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow Copy Share Image
The groves and thickets of smaller trees are full of blooming evergreen vines. These vines are not arranged in separate groups, or… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Outside the house, against a sheltered wall to the south, a single stalk of green thrust upwards, with slender rapierlike leaves and… — Elizabeth George Speare Copy Share Image
“The Pain of Becoming For the flower, it is fully open at each step of its blossoming. We do ourselves a great… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“Well, I’ll eat it,’ said Alice, ‘and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it makes… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
There's an interdependence between flowers and bees. Where there are no flowers there are no bees, and where there are no bees,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If delight may provoke men's labour, what greater delights is there then to behold the earth as apparelled with plants, as with… — John Gerard Copy Share Image
Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the… — Wendell Berry 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
How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor Falstaff, although… — John Keats 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
“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
“Growth is an unavoidable part of life. Whether we mean for it to happen or not, our bodies continually nourish and regenerate… — Scott Edmund Miller Copy Share Image
Very early, I thought I would go into music, but I was aware that it would bring a set of obstacles I… — Stella McCartney Copy Share Image
“There is a flower that Bees prefer— And Butterflies—desire— To gain the Purple Democrat The Humming Bird—aspire— And Whatsoever Insect pass— A… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“When you grow and rise above the masses, you will always become a target. Just as the flower grows above the grass,… — Sumner Davenport Copy Share Image
The wealth of any ecosystem is its perennials. The primal herbivore-predator-disturbance-rest dance is literally the breath and pulse of the earth. Grasses… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
A garden full of sweet odours is a garden full of charm, a most precious kind of charm not to be implanted… — Louise Wilder Copy Share Image
I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
“Around her the trees and wild flowers, with that oddly courteous air of natural things suddenly interrupted in their pressing occupations of… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“He recites the names of the trees, vines, shrubs, flowers that he’s planted here over the years. I count about forty different… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
“No matter how much you run, or fly or swim, you come back to the land. It’s like as if whatever mud… — Reena Doss Copy Share Image
Plants, animals, and stars are all kept in place, bridled along appointed ways, with one another, and through the midst of one… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“The best gardens are created through the art of deception, says Fox. Gardens should employ the art of the large in the… — Janie Chang Copy Share Image
The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“She woke from dreamless rest to find her lap filled with wildflowers-blue and gold violets, white starworts with bright yellow centers, wild… — Josie Litton Copy Share Image
YOUR HEART IS FULL of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout. Just as a lotus flower springs from the mire to bloom splendidly,… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
“How did these organs of plant sex manage to get themselves cross-wired with human ideas of value and status and Eros? And… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“fundamental link between our economic and ecological cycles.” And the importance of recharging the soil, to keep the ground covered and get… — Judith D. Schwartz Copy Share Image
Let's care and nurture our bodies. You are looking after something from a very early stage. Like a plant, you're giving it… — William Katt Copy Share Image
Rain falls, wind blows, plants bloom, leaves mature and are blown away; these phenomena are all interrelated with causes and conditions, are… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so... we used to rotate crops back in the day… — Michael Berryman Copy Share Image
“In the morning light the scene was beyond compare. The mountains and the hills were bathed in the soft light of the… — John D. Whidden Copy Share Image
A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
