When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Shadow walked the meadow, making his own slow circles around the trunk of the tree, gradually widening his circle. Sometimes he would… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I had wondered for a long time why God had preferences and why all souls did not receive an equal amount of… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Man, especially in our time, has without hesitation devastated wooded plains and valleys, polluted waters, disfigured the earth's habitat, made the air… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I don't think people are like, "I'm going to save the planet by planting my own herbs." But on environmental issues like… — Novella Carpenter Copy Share Image
It's like my garden, love. Everything grows. Including love. And with that growing everyday how can you expect missing her to ever… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
“The blossoms seem unusually lovely this year. There were none of the scarlet-and-white-striped curtains that are set up among the blossoming trees… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“That girl whom I never saw save dappled with the shadows of their leaves, was to me herself a plant of local… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Invasive plants were like all evil things; the only way to ensure that they wouldn't return was to face them head-on, battle… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
How beautiful, buoyant, and glad is morning! The first sunshine on the leaves: the first wind, laden with the first breath of… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
“Krishnamurti, a great Indian sage, once said: “You can take a piece of wood that you brought back from your garden, and… — Julien Smith Copy Share Image
For more than thirty years, Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd have been gardening with extraordinary, indeed legendary, results. Part memoir, part omnium-gatherum… — Philip Gambone Copy Share Image
I have a strong antipathy to everything connected with gardens, gardening and gardeners. . . . Gardening seems to me a kind… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
There are a number of companies in the area who do artificial foliage very well-- but I'd compare it to when you… — Shane Pliska Copy Share Image
The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My dad will sit out in the last tiny corner of the garden that has sunshine until the millisecond the final vestige… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
Now let us gather into one bouquet, from the King's garden, these seven fragrant flowers: Jesus the Son of God; Jesus our… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
I think there is such a thing as a bad seed that comes to flower in certain people. The danger with that… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
You find a flower half-buried in leaves, And in your eye its very fate resides. Loving beauty, you caress the bloom; Soon… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
“I take my metal canister of tea off the shelf. It is my own mixture of dried lavender blossoms and lemon balm,… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
“What I really wanted to do was linger in the tidy lines that Marcus had scored into the earth. I wanted to… — Tiffany Baker Copy Share Image
VIDEO ARCHIVE- INTERVIEW 24768 . GOLD-EYE I like trees… grass… only birds in sky. People walking safe. Family No Creatures. Sleep all… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
Sap which mounts, and flowers which thrust, Your childhood is a bower: Let my fingers wander in the moss Where glows the… — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
Cultivate your own garden and let go of your tendency to examine and judge how others cultivate theirs. Catch yourself in moments… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The fruit does not come from the outside, the fruit is created within you. Whatever you do, you develop receptivity for it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“There is something horrible about a flower; This, broken in my hand, is one of those He threw it in just now;… — Charlotte Mew Copy Share Image
One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
“She had not the strength to come to life now, in England, so foreign, skies so hostile. She knew she would die… — D H Lawrence Copy Share Image
“It was as Frank said: the Sparrow Sisters Nursery had quite a reputation. Sally told Henry about the Nursery that was now… — Ellen Herrick Copy Share Image
“We came to meadows full of flowers. We saw and realized that they were there, but we had no feelings about them.… — Viktor Frankl Copy Share Image
“I once saw, on a flower pot in my own living room, the efforts of a field mouse to build a remembered… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
My neighbor Alice Pierce is fond of singing folk music to her garden plants. Thinks it makes them grow or something. The… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
“Darwin called such a process artificial, as opposed to natural, selection, but from the flower’s point of view, this is a distinction… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image