“I drove out of Dartmouth and after a while Start Bay emerged out of the brightening gloom like the end of a… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
“The theme of his life’s work was his effort to bridge this gap. The way to do it was simply to refuse… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“To look after a garden involves a kind of getting to know that is somehow always in process. It entails refining and… — Sue Stuart-Smith Copy Share Image
In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
As an athlete, if you train your body but don't fuel it the right way, that doesn't make much sense. Adopting a… — Marc Gasol Copy Share Image
You know what a lima bean does when it's attacked by spider mites? It releases this volatile chemical that goes out into… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I have sat here happy in the gardens, Watching the still pool and the reeds And the dark clouds. . . .… — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
Yoga has had a profound effect on my songs and performances. I don't meditate in the traditional style of sitting and doing… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours.… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
After about a month of living on my own, I began to feel it. I bought some plants. I remember I named… — Kristy Swanson Copy Share Image
“The first day of spring, the vernal equinox—the season of renewal when the earth sheds its winter cloak, flowers bloom, and the… — Galen Watson Copy Share Image
I could only speak in the smallest, most intimate circles about the real reasons which made me undertake the changeover of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man is incomprehensible without Nature and Nature is incomprehensible apart from man. For the delicate loveliness of the flower is as much… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
It would never occur to most of us that 'plants' say anything at all, except in terms of what we read into… — John Hay Copy Share Image
My advice for someone who wants to be creative but has a chronic illness is to think of something that you can… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Boehme makes such leaps, such contradictions, such confusions of thought. It is as though he wishes to vault directly into heaven upon… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with them, and adoring them as if… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was!… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
“Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The earth sometimes rewards humans who do good works for the planet. Look out for unexpected windfalls of produce from the earth… — Sarah Rajkotwala Copy Share Image
If you take any flower you please and look it over and turn it about and smell it and feel it and… — Gertrude Jekyll Copy Share Image
“Change blows through the branches of our existence. It fortifies the roots on which we stand, infuses crimson experience with autumn hues,… — B.G. Bowers Copy Share Image
“Joseph would reach out to me occasionally, the same way the desert blooms a flower every now and then. You get so… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“It’s worth noting, because the text just said the reason there was not yet a garden was because there was no rain… — Danielle Shroyer Copy Share Image
“Nestled into a bed of shiny cream satin lay a heart-shaped pendant on a simple gold chain. The heart itself was created… — Tracy Anne Warren Copy Share Image
“But she went and fetched some marigolds from her own little garden, and put them in a vase on the chest of… — Joyce Lankester Brisley Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless" you've seen a strawberry that's had a struggle; yet was, where the fragments met, a hedgehog or a star- fish for… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
marrows - alas! - are arriving in a steady stream at the back door. ... Oddly enough, the majority of people who… — Miss Read Copy Share Image
“I stood in my garden as the rain poured down, eyes closed, and when I opened them I thought to myself how… — Sarah Brownlee Copy Share Image
The flower draws its life energy from the soil and from the sun. We are very similar. We continuously receive energy from… — Ratu Bagus Copy Share Image
“Through the rose garden, the path ran straight ahead to the mass of mauve wisteria, now past its best. At ground level,… — Deborah Lawrenson Copy Share Image
Morning exercise, walking in the free, invigorating air of heaven, or cultivating flowers, small fruits, and vegetables, is the surest safeguard against… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
“A poor old Widow in her weeds Sowed her garden with wild-flower seeds; Not too shallow, and not too deep, And down… — Walter de la Mare Copy Share Image
As kids, we lived in this magical world and roamed free in the gardens. I was obsessed with 'Alice in Wonderland.' My… — Juno Temple Copy Share Image
Life is like a garden. Quite naturally, leaves wither and flowers fade. Only if we clear the decay of the past then… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
In his or her life, each person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant. Builders may take years… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
My normal writing day involves three hours of actual writing, before noon, and the rest is just feeding the writing. There is… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
