The progress of this famous plant has been something like the progress of truth; suspected at first, though very palatable to those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“BEAUTIFUL LILY PETALS Walking down our street towards the house I notice some beautiful white lily petals on the pavement in front… — Tim Bradford Copy Share Image
Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Christianity sees plants and flowers as created by God to show forth and share with humans the divine goodness, beauty and truth… — John Stokes Copy Share Image
A long time ago, there were lovers that lived on the opposite ends of a river. They promised to meet when the… — John the Apostle Copy Share Image
“Working with some real dirt seemed fitting for a woman whose hands felt like they would remain forever filthy. She decided to… — Ken Goldman --From SINKHOLE Copy Share Image
This is a nice metaphor, too, about mothers and daughters - that when it came time for me to make my own,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Neer picked up two water plants that floated nearby. She looked at them and told Champa that these flowers looked different every… — Priyadarshini Copy Share Image
He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork,… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“For you little gardener and lover of trees, I have only a small gift. Here is set G for Galadriel, but it… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
A seed has to get buried in the soil for its real form as a plant to emerge. Only through modesty and… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
The first gatherings of the garden in May of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby… — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
“Let us have gardens, then, and other public places where we may see our friends, and parade our vanities, if you will,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
“Mr. Grote shows me how he grows wild rice in the stream and collects the seeds. The rice is nutty and brown.… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“A woman who's given me a home-a purpose.And for the first time in my life,I-" "A purpose ?" Jennika squints, as she… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
The eighteenth-century view of the garden was that it should lead the observer to the enjoyment of the aesthetic sentiments of regularity… — Penelope Hobhouse Copy Share Image
...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a… — David Fairchild Copy Share Image
...A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Under the ground seep the toxins of the population that lives above. If you have to, you will eat roots and earthworms.… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
A man is born gentle and weak. At death, he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going,… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
A grower of chrysanthemums awaited a visit from the emperor, who was coming to enjoy his blossoms, of which there were hundreds… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
Plants are decisive to a fault. A stem produces a bud that flowers once and once only. It offers pollen that is… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
“From the sound of pattering raindrops I recaptured the scent of the lilacs at Combray; from the shifting of the sun's rays… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children. Consider the silent influencewhich flowers… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This soil is bad for certain kinds of flowers. Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear, and… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Final Disposition Others divided closets full of mother's things. From the earth, I took her poppies. I wanted those fandango folds of… — Jane Glazer Copy Share Image
Gardening can be a compelling cooperative activity. Your best harvest may be the pleasure you get from working with family and friends.… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
No words will ever describe the exquisite beauty and charm of this mountain park – Nature’s landscape garden at once tenderly beautiful… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“We were all born to be peaceful citizens of the world. Take care of your global garden and do not allow evil… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
One arranges flowers as the spirit moves you; to obey some inner prompting to put this colour with that, to have brilliance… — Constance Spry Copy Share Image
Her delight in the smallest things was like that of a child. There were days when she ran in the garden, like… — Alexandre Dumas-fils Copy Share Image
A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Gardens take many years to make. One cannot just plant stuff and presto—there is a garden. No, gardens have energy. Like houses,… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
“I dream of transforming my neighborhood into a garden, where flowers blossom not only in the soil but in the hearts of… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
“Raindrops fall from clouds of gray. The fragile flowers grow. Teardrops seem all I can say. They speak of endless woe. Your… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
his planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Important rules like don’t poison the water,… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
