“It’s why we like real flowers that wilt, not perfect plastic ones that never change.” — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight. — Deborah Needleman Copy Share Image
My mother had a beautiful rose garden and would cut roses all summer and place in our house. — Tinsley Mortimer Copy Share Image
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower drives my green age. — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“That is the difference between a botanist and a poet: a botanist knows about the flower, the poet knows the flower.” — Osho Copy Share Image
Everyone is entitled to a home where the sun, the stars, open fields, giant trees, and smiling flowers are free to teach… — Jens Jensen Copy Share Image
“Reading books about gardens is a potent pastime; books nourish a gardener's mind in the same way as manure nourishes plants.” — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
All things are symbols: the external shows Of Nature have their image in the mind , As flowers and fruits and falling… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“I now call trees "tree beings," flowers and shrubs "plant beings," and lakes and rivers "water beings." They are as alive as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Pluck thou my flower, Oothoon the mild; Another flower shall spring, because the soul of sweet delight Can never pass away.” — William Blake Copy Share Image
Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the first gardens I did outside the family was for the designer Hattie Carnegie. I was 23 then, and I… — Rachel Lambert Mellon Copy Share Image
“And there, with their gables lifting into the sunlight above deep hedgerows beautiful with spring. He saw the cottages of earthly men.… — Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany Copy Share Image
“In this process of unlearning, in the process of feeling and hearing the plants again, one comes to realize many things. And… — Stephen Harrod Buhner Copy Share Image
“But gardening is none of that, really. Strip away the gadgets and the techniques, the books and the magazines and the soil… — Amy Stewart Copy Share Image
“On rich soils only abundant harvests of produce for ordinary consumption grow. On poor soils the most misshapen trees, and flowers of… — Roger Giroux Copy Share Image
“may not deconstruct, but I am a pretty good mimic; a weed who knows how to look like a flower. I keep… — John Seed Copy Share Image
There are many possible approaches to Australian garden design, and they all reflect the designer's individual response to gardens. For my part,… — Edna Walling Copy Share Image
“Some flowers bloom beneath the biggest blue, while others prefer the shade; As is Human Nature… Some turn their faces to the… — Michelle Geaney Copy Share Image
If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We're living on the Planet of the Apes. Is that funny or serious? — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
We'll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre. — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
Plant breeding has been going on for millennia and it's a gradual process. — Monty Don Copy Share Image
“But a chair, sunlight, flowers: these are not to be dismissed. I am alive, I live, I breathe” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
