All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, Evolution made them all. Each little flower… — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
I started studying herbalism and edible plants that existed in the wild. And then I realized, "Okay, cool. I know how to… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
“It is idle to say there is no such garden. Everyone recognises the same nostalgia... Paradise is neither a moment nor a… — Richard Cavendish Copy Share Image
The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
“Far from its outward appearance, the rain forest was not a garden of easy abundance, but precisely the opposite. Its quiet, shaded… — Candice Millard Copy Share Image
“..."Nature" is not to be understood as that which is just present-at-hand, nor as the power of Nature . The wood is… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
You work here [on the farm] simply without philosophizing; sometimes the work is hard and crowded with pettiness. But at times you… — A. D. Gordon Copy Share Image
Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life… Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“Now there was the rustling of skirts, and it kicked up her smell, that distinctive blend of vanilla and violets, lavender and… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, with… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“The Pilot had teams scouring the fields and meadows near the city of Camas, with instructions not to pull up everything so… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
Gardening is like everything else in life, you get out of it as much as you put in. No one can make… — Margery Fish Copy Share Image
God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Beneath and around the dead and ruined chaparral rise the most amazingly beautiful flowers. Tulips and wind poppies and flame poppies, whispering… — Frances Wood Copy Share Image
“The grass is always greener…wherever you water and mow. No matter how big or how small, take care of the things you… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
Most people, early in November, take last looks at their gardens, are are then prepared to ignore them until the spring. I… — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
There's not a plant or flower below but makes Thy glories known, And clouds arise, and tempests blow by order from Thy… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
“Spain is a million things, it’s lantanas and hibiscus, it’s roses that aren’t ashamed to split their skirts for love, rude flowers… — Lisa R. Spaar Copy Share Image
“They open their wings, flash patterns and color, fly from flower toflower. I, with the dark brittles and many feet of the… — Nina Kiriki Hoffman Copy Share Image
The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Finding just one flower instead of thousands of crocodiles on an unknown planet would make human beings much happier because flowers symbolize… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Yesterday morning I managed briefly to escape Mamma, & passed a lovely hour in the roof garden. I thought of you, dearest,… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Just as Patience read the people in Granite Point, searching for the troubled bits in their bodies or hearts, and Nettie collected… — Ellen Herrick Copy Share Image
“But compare the hardest day's work you ever did with the idleness that splits flowers and pokes its way into spiders' stomachs,… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“SERVANT. Have mercy upon your servant, my queen! QUEEN. The assembly is over and my servants are all gone. Why do you… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Today's gardens have become far more than things of beauty. And today's generation is fast finding out that backyards can be an… — Jamie Durie Copy Share Image
“Many bright people are really in the dark about vegetable life. Biology teachers face kids in classrooms who may not even believe… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Far more gardens fail because the gardener is absent or not paying attention than because he or she lacks erudition. Yes, you… — Barbara Damrosch Copy Share Image
“A butterfly fluttered from flower to flower in the old garden, gracing the silvery-blue tips of the crocuses and what remained of… — Melanie Dobson Copy Share Image
“Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Pleasure need not be less keen because there will be centuries of springs to come, their blossom unseen by human eyes, the… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“and retreat from the busy and hectic day to day daily life or the desire for fresh veggies, gardening can fill that… — Anthony Higgins Copy Share Image
Whether we consciously realize it or not, the biodiversity with which we are most familiar, and the biodiversity with which we have… — Cary Fowler Copy Share Image
Wrapping rubber bands around a watermelon is not journalism. It is entertainment. But the key to success in media has always been… — Henry Blodget Copy Share Image
“Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and survival on many other forms of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
“There are a few people who have the wonderful garden loam that is described in books and magazines. One is more likely… — Maggie Oster Copy Share Image
Almost all people descend to meet. All association must be a compromise, and, what is worst, the very flower and aroma of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
![“You work here [on the farm] simply without philosophizing; sometimes the work is hard and crowded with pettiness. But at times you feel a surge of cosmic exaltation, like the clear light of the heavens... . And you, too, seem to be taking root in the soil which you are digging, to be nourished by…” quote by A. D. Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/634/a-d-gordon-48193_blades_you-work-here-on-the-farm-simply-without_857762.png)
![“Far more gardens fail because the gardener is absent or not paying attention than because he or she lacks erudition. Yes, you need to know your ABCs [the basics], but the more you garden, the more you'll learn what works and what doesn't.” quote by Barbara Damrosch](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b7a/barbara-damrosch-64467_absent_far-more-gardens-fail-because-the-garden_1879960.jpg)
![“Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and survival on many other forms of life, so he is careful to take their interests into account in whatever he does. He is in fact a wilderness advocate of a certain kind. It is when he respects and…” quote by Michael Pollan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/74b/michael-pollan-408_garden_anthropocentric-as-the-gardener-may-be-h_3049569.jpg)
