Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“As we think about the next 50 years, I remember a story President Kennedy told a week before he was killed. The… — Newton N. Minnow Copy Share Image
By nature, we are a plant-based intelligence - not just our exhale, which plants inhale, but they are my food chain. They… — Horst Rechelbacher Copy Share Image
It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the… — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal...Its tenacious fibers… — John James Ingalls Copy Share Image
“A nuclear reactor is a proposed "solution" to "the energy problem." But like all big-technological "solutions," this one "solves" a single problem… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“For this, let gardens grow, where beelines end, sighing in roses, saffron blooms, buddleia; where bees pray on their knees, sing, praise… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
Flowers are not symbols of power. Flowers are too brief, too frail, to elicit much hope of eternity. In truth, flowers are… — Sharman Apt Russell Copy Share Image
For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“Plant seeds. Don't be stupid. God's not sending anyone else. He sent you. To Save yourself. Be smart. Plant as many seeds… — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
Flowers heal me. Tulips make me happy. I keep myself surrounded by them as soon as they start coming to the island… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
“Alice dug into her pocket and pulled out her notebook, hurrying to make a note of the sensation and the day and… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Immortal amarant, a flower which once In paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Things grow for me in the garden, little green promises that, in good time, are kept: I will give you tomatoes, I… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Each bud flowers but once and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“Plants are nature’s alchemists, expert at transforming water, soil and sunlight into an array of precious substances, many of them beyond the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
the various earth odors all have a separate tale to tell, and the leaf mold of the woods bears a wholly different… — Mabel Osgood Wright Copy Share Image
Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to… — Ketzel Levine Copy Share Image
My favorite thing is landscaping. I love landscaping. And so what I'll do is, mostly I put language into search engines, and… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I noticed the plants growing around me. Tall with leaves like arrowheads. Blossoms with three white petals. I knelt down in the… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“We walked among the different plants and by using The Book, we did our best to identify them and understand how to… — Rajani LaRocca Copy Share Image
“PLANTS ARE LIKE ANIMALS Only about five processes are fundamental to life, no matter the kingdom. These processes are growth, feeding, defense,… — Scott Zona Copy Share Image
The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed Their snow-white blossoms on my head, With brightest sunshine round me spread Of spring's unclouded weather,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Over the course of fifteen years of research on plant development, I came to the conclusion that for understanding the development of… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
“But something that never escapes me as I putter about the garden, physically and mentally: desire and curiosity inform the inevitable boundaries… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there… — William Blake Copy Share Image
What is different and exciting is how much we have learned. We learned we were right that we don't need the chemical… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Nothing in the nature lives for itself Rivers don't drink their own water Trees don't eat their own fruit Sun doesn't give… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and… — Joseph Paxton Copy Share Image
“We here see in two distant countries a similar relation between plants and insects of the same families, though the species of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“Does it improve the atmosphere of the garden, the more flowers there are in a garden? “Yes of course, we all have… — Sarah Rajkotwala Copy Share Image
“David had been photographing endangered species in the Hawaiian rainforest and elsewhere for years, and his collections of photographs and Suzie's tarot… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
