The country ever has a lagging Spring, Waiting for May to call its violets forth, And June its roses-showers and sunshine bring,… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
“And the ritual of Prayer embraces all these movements: (a) There is the ascending, vertical movement which corre- sponds to the faithful's… — Henry Corbin Copy Share Image
“The wind I hear it sighing, with autumn's saddest sound; withered leaves all thick are lying, as spring-flowers on the ground. This… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
As some species of plants need to be burned to the ground in order for them to later flourish, I needed to… — Xeno Muller Copy Share Image
Look at this vigorous plant that lifts its head from the meadow, See how its leaves are turned to the north, as… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
A slight sabre-cut will separate my head from my body, like the spring flower which the Master of the garden gathers for… — Theophane Venard Copy Share Image
“But we never stopped believing that somewhere out there, in some stranger's backyard, our mother's rosebush was blossoming madly, wildly, pressing one… — Julie Otsuka Copy Share Image
The garden is doing so well, we have so many greens and radishes that everyone is enjoying. Also, we are using one… — Mike Moreno Copy Share Image
In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are intended to… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“Here, in the garden at night, it is another world, strange and yet friendly and familiar, never frightening. There is such quietness,… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
“Just as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds, and growing the flowers and fruits which he requires, so… — James Allen Copy Share Image
“And then there was the expansive garden that ran the length of the rear of the house- lush with color and fragrances… — Tracy Anne Warren Copy Share Image
There's a country spread out in the sky, a credulous carpet of rainbows and crepuscular plants: I move toward it just a… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
And Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences, whether we consider its subjects as furnishing the principal subsistence of life to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Each year the big garden grew smaller and Jane - who grew flowers by choice, not corn or stringbeans - worked at… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Then all at once in late August's heat, tall leafless stalks crowned with iridescent pink and purple blossoms burst from the purgatory… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
We recognize in a plant some unknown power, a single, form-giving force, which creates and conserves, which moves unwaveringly toward its end,… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that there would not be one that resembles another, and not only plants… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
“She knelt on the walkway, and the plants bunched around her, each of them calling out their name: the philodendron was Dendy… — Sarah Beth Durst Copy Share Image
Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
“In the garden everything was wonderfully clear and still. The birds were chirping so energetically that Sophie could hardly keep from laughing.… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Spring advanced rapidly; the weather became fine, and the skies cloudless. It surprised me that what before was desert and gloomy should… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
No matter where you are you can grow something to eat. Shift your thinking and you'd be surprised at the places your… — Greg Peterson Copy Share Image
“the flowers of the morning glory. They bloom and smile every morning, fade and die in a few hours. How fleeting and… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“These handkerchief gardens are a traditional German solution to apartment dwellers' yearning for a tool shed and a vegetable garden. They make… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
What do we look for as reward? Some little sounds, and scents, and scenes A small hand darting strawberry-ward A woman's aprons… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
There are no idealists in the plant world and no compassion. The rose and the morning glory know no mercy. Bindweed, the… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
