In Egypt, I loved the perfume of the lotus. A flower would bloom in the pool at dawn, filling the entire garden… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man. I… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“Working on the native-herb garden in the front corner of the yard. Already thriving: thyme, hyssop, spearmint, lemon balm, fennel, chamomile, marjoram.… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
As the biocentric view suggests, the garden prospers when control is balanced by equal measures of humility and benevolence. A balance is… — Jim Nollman Copy Share Image
Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
The April rain, the April rain, Comes slanting down in fitful showers, Then from the furrow shoots the grain, And banks are… — Mathilde Blind Copy Share Image
Let every Christian be a gardener so that he and she and the whole of creation, which groans in expectation of the… — Vigen Guroian Copy Share Image
So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns No answering smile from me, whose life is twin'd With the dead boughs… — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Copy Share Image
C. albus...I think the very loveliest of all the lily family - a spotless soul, plant saint, that every one must love… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“(Why flowers are so important to the main character) I need the reminder that God loves to make detailed and beautiful things,… — dee henderson Copy Share Image
If there are favourable habitats and favorable forms of association for animalsand plants, as ecology demonstrates, why not for men? If each… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening… — Emanuel Steward Copy Share Image
“Vase [Why weep Come back tomorrow There are also poisonous flowers and flowers always open in the evening she loves the cinema… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
And there, row upon row, with the soft gleam of flowers opened at morning, with the light of this June sun glowing… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
“What a joy life is when you have made a close working partnership with Nature, helping her to produce for the benefit… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
Imagination! My problem is that I have so many ideas, I never have enough time to use them all. Just the other… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
“They shouldered their packs and took up their sticks, and walked round the corner to the west side of Bag End. 'Good-bye!'… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In a rush, the world opened its mouth to her—and it was screaming. Everywhere—the air around her, the ground beneath her, the… — Jackie Morse Kessler Copy Share Image
“That wind! ...it called to mind the small, scarce, stemmy flowers that she and Edmund would walk half a day to pick,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“In the country, spring is a time of small happenings happening quietly, hyacinth shoots thrusting in a garden, willows burning with a… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Even though flowers fall, don't regret it. Even though weeds grow, don't hate them. Don't arouse the passions of attraction and repulsion,… — Hakuun Yasutani Copy Share Image
“Many gardeners will agree that hand-weeding is not the terrible drudgery that it is often made out to be. Some people find… — Christopher Lloyd Copy Share Image
“The flower that smiles today Tomorrow dies; All that we wish to stay Tempts and then flies; What is this world's delight?… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“a] One is in a different place, so the protective barriers no longer exist. To begin with this can be alarming, but… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“A certain king had a beautiful garden, and in the garden stood a tree which bore golden apples. These apples were always… — Jacob Grimm Copy Share Image
“Yet each flower, each twig, each pebble, shines as though illuminated from within, as once before, on her first day in the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“November came roaring in with gusty winds and more wet weather. Mandy's depression would not go away. Her garden seemed sad, too.… — Julie Andrews Edwards Copy Share Image
May I suggest that you all read? And often. Believe me, it's nice to have something to talk about other than the… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“Still,he noticed that though the house was in poor shape, the gardens were perfect. The paths were well lined, the flower beds… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
Gardening is really an extended form of reading, of history and philosophy. The garden itself has become like writing a book. I… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“When we’re in nature, we move toward what elicits our best qualities. When we need a boost of confidence, joy, courage, or… — Katie Hess Copy Share Image
There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“What will happen to the flowers, now that you are gone? The earth that clings to the steps, the tulsi that begins… — Manil Suri Copy Share Image
The poet's perspective of life, the musician's sense of harmony, the artist's eye of proportion and relationships ~ these are all shared… — Michael Tierra Copy Share Image
I've got my organic veg patch and fruit; we're very garden-obsessed, my husband and I. He designed a garden for me for… — Stella McCartney Copy Share Image
Walking on willow tree roads by a river dappled with peach blossoms, I look for spring light, but am everywhere lost. Birds… — Wang Wei Copy Share Image