Oh, good lord, Jeff. Don't go getting all emotional on me. I've been getting it from my mom, my dad, my sister,… — Jordan Sonnenblick Copy Share Image
If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees,… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I like not lady-slippers, Nor yet the sweet-pea blossoms, Nor yet the flaky roses, Red or white as snow; I like the… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
“The aim of forest garden design is to make the relationships as co-operative as possible, while acknowledging that very few plants will… — Patrick Whitefield Copy Share Image
A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, unites in his own person the three different characters, of landlord,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
As a married woman, I know perfectly well what six or eight inches looks like, so it's easy to make a good… — Cassandra Danz Copy Share Image
“Sometimes in life, it is necessary to be a colourful flower that can be noticed even from far away; sometimes you have… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over;… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Laura's mind was already racing with the creative possibilities presented to her. She whipped out her sketchbook and started to work away… — Paula Brackston Copy Share Image
If your purse no longer bulges and you've lost your golden treasure, If times you think you're lonely and have hungry grown… — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
One ought to be ashamed to make use of the wonders of science embodied in a radio set, the while appreciating them… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is a dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens in cup and takes it in, while the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We belong to no cult. We are not Nature Lovers. We don't love nature any more than we love breathing. Nature is… — Louise Dickinson Rich Copy Share Image
Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which when viewed… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
One of the greatest virtues of gardening is this perpetual renewal of youth and spring, of promise of flower and fruit that… — Edward Augustus Bowles Copy Share Image
“We come from seed,” he told his son, smiling. “We grow up, blossom, and produce fruit. Then the fruit dries and goes… — Diana Palmer Copy Share Image
No Temple made by mortal human hands can ever compare to the Temple made by the gods themselves. That building of wood… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses,… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
“TEN MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS TO THE ORIGINAL SQUARE FOOT GARDEN METHOD 1. Location—Close to the House 2. Direction—Up, Not Down 3. Soil—Mel’s Mix… — Mel Bartholomew Copy Share Image
[V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode… an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Who does not observe the immediate glow and security that is diffused over the life of woman, before restless or fretful, by… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
There is a theology to gardening that few of us consider, but to understand this theology means relinquishing much control - our… — Christopher McDowell Copy Share Image
Sometimes my courage fails me and I think I ought to stop working, live in the country and devote myself to gardening.… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
“Palestine, When you rain Grass grows and trees foliate. The fields bloom orange and lemon. Swaying green spikes and figs and olives… — Amany Al-Hallaq Copy Share Image
I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during… — Ed Westwick Copy Share Image
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Love is no hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
Living Things. The garden can be as unlimited a resource as you want it to be. It's an escape from everything if… — Hazel Hawke Copy Share Image
I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I think doing something creative is the most important thing to me, and I think it's probably just good for the soul… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Fabulous" Jack said, reaching down and plucking a crimson flower. A small scream sounded from it as he severed the stem. He… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what that is. It doesn't matter… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
“And my difficulties were these: I found each plant, each new turn in the road, each new turn in the weather, from… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
If we analyze the operations of scenes of beauty upon the mind, and consider the intimate relation of the mind upon the… — Frederick Law Olmsted Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Do something that will last and be beautiful. It doesn't have to be a bridge-or a symphony or book or a business.… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
In the garden the door is always open into the "holy" - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“In the small seeds of plants lie hidden both bulk and branches, bud and fruit. In a few principles lie hidden all… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image