In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
I find that a real gardener is not a man who cultivates flowers; he is a man who cultivates the soil. He… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
“There are large and stately studios, panelled and high, in strong stone houses filled with gleaming brass and polished oak. There are… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out especially-a translation… — Douglas Houghton Campbell Copy Share Image
If the garden of Eden really exists it does so moment by moment, fragmented and tough, cropping up like a fan of… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“Ginny had named her supper club after the prominent mesquite tree that shaded the home's picturesque front garden. She adored these deciduous… — Nicole Meier Copy Share Image
My parents were/are straight-edge hippies. Mom roamed around gardening so we would have fresh food, and Dad was on wood-chopping duty to… — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
Now summer is in flower and natures hum Is never silent round her sultry bloom Insects as small as dust are never… — John Clare Copy Share Image
“There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became, And that object… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
There is that within a man that drives him ever onwards, just as the power of the seasons drives the roots of… — Tom Holt Copy Share Image
How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“The garden of the soul, she says, can be watered in several manners. The first, drawing the water up from a well… — R. Thomas Ashbrook Copy Share Image
Gardening is an excellent example of a practice to which, as Alasdair MacIntyre puts it, certain virtues are 'internal'. Good gardening requires… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
“Change is a slow flower to bloom. Most of us will not see its full radiance. We plant it not for ourselves,… — Robert Jackson Bennett Copy Share Image
The student of Nature wonders the more and is astonished the less, the more conversant he becomes with her operations; but of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“Many Detroiters, for example, are beginning to see urban agriculture as a real part of the solution; to grow things right where… — Jaye Beeler Copy Share Image
You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Spring comes to the Australian Alps like an invisible spirit. There is not the tremendous surge of upthrust life that there is… — Elyne Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Ideas begin their life as small seeds, so light they may drift through the air like dust motes. If a human is… — Rahma Krambo Copy Share Image
A flower is a daisy chain, a graduation, a valentine; a flower is New Year's Eve and an orchid in your hair;… — Jean Hersey Copy Share Image
“It's a beautiful morning, Sire," the guard said "Yes, it is." The Duke nodded, thinking: Perhaps this planet could grow on one.… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“a flower knows, when its butterfly will return, and if the moon walks out, the sky will understand; but now it hurts,… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“Flowers need plenty of water and sunshine to grow. Love, too, needs attention and affection, or else it slowly withers away from… — Kerri Maniscalco Copy Share Image
The people I see on bicycles look like organic-gardening zealots who advocate federal regulation of bedtime and want American foreign policy to… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“And I thanked mi papa who'd always said to me that we, los Indios, the Indians, were like the weeds. That roses… — Victor Villaseñor Copy Share Image
“Indeed, what more could you want? A little garden to amble about in, and infinite space to dream in. At his feet,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Christ has come into the world to lay out a garden wherein, amid splendor and abundance, there should thrive the violet of… — Fr James Groenings Copy Share Image
“There is a bench in the back of my garden shaded by Virginia creeper, climbing roses, and a white pine where I… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
There are few gardens that can be left alone. A few years of neglect and only the skeleton of a garden can… — Russell Page Copy Share Image
Give up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There was a product on late night TV that you could attach to your garden hose - "You can water your hard-to-reach… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
The growth of trees and plants takes place so slowly that it is not easily seen. Daily we notice little change. But,… — John Owen Copy Share Image
"The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
“Oh, the meadows were gold and the sky so blue, I traveled down that pebble path I so well knew. The sun… — Katlyn Charlesworth Copy Share Image
“The rain had ripened all the country around and the roadside grass was luminous and green from the run-off and flowers were… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“They are beautiful, heart-rendingly beautiful, those wilds, with a quality of wide-eyed, unsung, innocent surrender that my lacquered, toy-bright Swiss villages and… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“THE LILIES This morning it was, on the pavement, When that smell hit me again And set the houses reeling. People passed… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding,… — Elton John Copy Share Image
“Song" Observe the cautious toadstools still on the lawn today though they grow over-evening; sun shrinks them away. Pale and proper and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
