Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man. — Henry George Copy Share Image
Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is one rule in the garden that is above all others. You must give to nature more than you take. Obey… — Alan Chadwick Copy Share Image
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.[What is a sorrow? A feeling whose benefits have not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Flowers are always beautiful, but there is something unmatched about spring flowers—an awakening, a renewal that fills the air with surreal harmonies… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
A flash of harmless lightning, A mist of rainbow dyes, The burnished sunbeams brightening From flower to flower he flies. — John B. Tabb Copy Share Image
Today the art of gardening is practised much more often than any other, in ignorant, impulsive ways, by people who never stop… — Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer Copy Share Image
In the midst of the happiness they brought there was always a lurking shadow. The shadow of incompatibility; of the impossibility of… — Dorothy Richardson Copy Share Image
“Annamaria had preferred oil rather than electric lamps. She said that sunshine grows plants, the plants express essential oils, and years later… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“One cannot analyse the character of European gardens without looking beyond the Mediterranean. This is because horticulture, palace life and city-building developed… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
“The wood lay still. The air throbbed with insects, and flies hovered and disappeared and hovered. Meadowsweet grew in a mist of… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
I used to help my maternal grandad in his garden. He was a lovely, kind man. He turned his spare bedroom into… — Sarah Millican Copy Share Image
“How this peculiar grass, native to Central America and unknown to the Old World before 1492, came to colonize so much of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I struggle sometimes superficially with my management or with my own career about how much time I spend traveling or giving myself… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
It's not a big leap mentally to see the extension from gardening and farmer's markets to hunting local foods. I think that's… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
Some days I am the flower beneath the machine. And the machine rolls slowly on, blocking the sun, without a care for… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Recreate your life, always, always. Remove the stones, plant rose bushes and make sweets. Begin again.” — Cora Coralina Copy Share Image
Flowers are red, and green leaves are green. There's no need to see flowers any other way than the way they always… — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are cases in which the blade springs, but the plant does not go on to flower. There are cases where it… — Confucius Copy Share Image
If I didn't believe that we had a chance of coming to power, then I would have focused on taking care of… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
Do not spend the day in gathering flowers by the way side, lest night come upon you before you arrive at your… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Just the way a rain drop brings hope to a dying flower, Your smile might bring hope to someone who is lost.… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“shade. Sweet-smelling Carolina allspice, with its reddish-black flowers, lilacs, honeysuckle and” — Andrea Wulf Copy Share Image
Every night I bring home flowers and burn candles. And I have a real sense that home is what starts everything inside… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing. In South America they throw flowers to you. In Greece Greeks throw themselves. — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
Plants are both friend and enemy, source of health and, in certain instances, triggers of disease. — Steven Gundry Copy Share Image
You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields… — Dan Buettner Copy Share Image
In whatever name or form they are offered, all these flowers are laid at God's feet, for He is the one Lord… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“After the death of my marriage, I was hell-bent on keeping the bird-of-paradise alive. I would take it slowly. Plants first. And… — Margot Berwin Copy Share Image
Keep your face upturned to Christ as the flowers do to the sun. Look, and your soul shall live and grow — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants. — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
“Death. I thought it would be gardens, perhaps. Beautiful countryside with cool streams. It's only blackness. Nervous and dark. There is no… — Robyn Carr Copy Share Image
“My love thoughts these days Come thick like the summer grass Which soon as cut and raked Grows” — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep… — Jill Shalvis Copy Share Image
The unmulched garden looks to me like some naked thing which for one reason or another would be better off with a… — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
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