“I wondered why so many gardens around the world focused on the healing power of plants rather than their ability to kill…… — Duchess of Northumberland Jane Percy Copy Share Image
So that's what I'm here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven't felt since… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Oh! Old rubbish! Old letters, old clothes, old objects that one does not want to throw away. How well nature has understood… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
The garden rose may richly bloom In cultured soil and genial air, To cloud the light of Fashion's room Or droop in… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
“The ragged cat drags its belly across where the grass is short and the stones are sharp, under the lilacs that have… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed… — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
Why don't you have a room done up in every color green? This will take months, years, to collect, but it will… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
“every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. 30And to every beast of the earth and to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“One of the many reasons why gardens are increasingly precious to us in this day and age is that they help us… — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
“If we’re laying out a garden, planning one before the house, you know, and there you’ve a tree that’s stood for centuries… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What a time herbs and weeds, and such things could talk, A man in his garden one day did walk, Spying a… — John Heywood Copy Share Image
“Eliza had split each day between her two favorite places on the estate: the black rock down in the cove, on top… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
One of the first drawings I did in Paris - I wasn't thinking of doing drawings, but somehow or other, I kept… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
I am a particular fan of integrative exercise - that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
A soil adapted to the growth of plants, is necessarily prepared and carefully preserved; and, in the necessary waste of land which… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton… — Katharine Sergeant Angell White Copy Share Image
I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We know that gardening is good for you. It is fantastic, all-round exercise. That is easy to see and evaluate. It inculcates… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
What a difference that extra 120 ppm has made for plants, and for animals and humans that depend on them. The more… — Paul Driessen Copy Share Image
“My eyes blinked like a camera shutter clicking through the frames of my life, except the images were mismatched and haphazard: a… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
My children threw me a life line: "Return to your roots - food - and rewrite your first book, Diet for a… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Natural objects themselves, even when they make no claim to beauty, excite the feelings, and occupy the imagination. Nature pleases, attracts, delights,… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
For optimal health, we need body and spirit, exercise (ming) and meditation, awareness of the inner world and the outer. In other… — Ken Cohen Copy Share Image
“Let not the curse of Witches Destroy a land of natural riches. Plants, preserve life in thy roots, Seeds sleep in earth,… — Amber Argyle Copy Share Image
The ideal garden is one in which a collection of trees, shrubs and plants have been procured and allotted to the best… — Penelope Hobhouse Copy Share Image
“will plant!” True to his word, on Friday, when she arrived, there were dozens of plants waiting by the garden plot that… — Sarah Price Copy Share Image
Sometimes a game comes at just the right moment in your life. 'Flower' is beautiful, serene, and a bit of sunshine in… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
“In the kitchen, she made passionflower tea, turning the jar of loose leaves in her hand while a teaspoon's worth steeped in… — Barbara Delinsky Copy Share Image
Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
“Don’t ask for everything on your platter,” she said. “Be satisfied with a wrinkled pea, for there’s another world we’re all going… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Fall is not the end of the gardening year; it is the start of next year's growing season. The mulch you lay… — Thalassa Cruso Copy Share Image
The term biodynamics - push it aside, it is verbosity. It doesn't matter a bit. One has to use words to make… — Alan Chadwick Copy Share Image
“When I gardened at home, I often considered how the growth of plants resembles the gradual growth of the spirit. And seeing… — Janet Benton Copy Share Image
A freak but moist flower tangles my lungs, knits into my heart, crawls up my throat and sucks like octopi on my… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“... from the classically executed lifelike bouquets, tempting you to reach for the petals that fell on a three-dimensional tablecloth, to a… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Children, don't waste a single second. Serve others, above all the poor, expecting nothing in return. Just as the person who offers… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Nature grinds all of us. Keep count of the ounce of pleasure you get. In the long run, nature did her work… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
