This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“Joseph would reach out to me occasionally, the same way the desert blooms a flower every now and then. You get so… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Does the unmistakeable intent of Versailles to proclaim dominion over nature destroy its aesthetic appeal, as Schopenhauer thought? Does the greenness of… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Better known as the Secret of the Golden Flower, this is a famous neidan text that the Western world came to know… — Monica Esposito Copy Share Image
Nature seemed to have adorned herself for our departure with a profusion of fringes and curls, mingled with the bright tints of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The art of living demands that our interest in bringing forth flowers in our family life equal the interest we take in… — Ellen Key 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
“In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Natural history is a matter of observation; it is a harvest which you gather when and where you find it growing. Birds… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
As leaders we do not create growth. The best we can do is create an environment that is conducive to growth. It… — James Hunter Copy Share Image
“The flat area immediately below was broken up into a formal pattern of beds containing oleander and more clipped clouds of box,… — Deborah Lawrenson Copy Share Image
Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far… — Russell Page Copy Share Image
“In the Ondariva gardens the branches spread out like the tentacles of extraordinary animals, and the plants on the ground opened up… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“If you wish to make anything grow, you must understand it, and understand it in a very real sense. 'Green fingers' are… — Russell Page Copy Share Image
“What is a flower? A giant sexual organ in its Sunday best. The truth has been known for a long time, yet,… — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
The more contemplative gardener, seeing the garden as a whole, the design of it, and its nature as a still place of… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
Morning is the best of all times in the garden. The sun is not yet hot. Sweet vapors rise from the earth.… — William Longgood Copy Share Image
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
The gardens I love best are those that are still affectionately tended by the people who own them and who made them… — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
“popcorn, with Jordan fast on her heels. They sprinted into the dense growth of the overburdened flower beds and began running zigzag… — Tracy Brogan Copy Share Image
A drop of water has the tastes of the water of the seven seas: there is no need to experience all the… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
“Soon some of the plants were as big as fruit trees. There were fans of long emerald-green leaves, flowers resembling peacock tails… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
“Without sight to get in the way of things, the whole world was suddenly alive with sound: the lapping of water as… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“The Flowers All the names I know from nurse: Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse, Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock, And the Lady Hollyhock. Fairy… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
