“Her bedroom window overlooked the garden, and now and then, usually when she was "having a bad spell," Mr. Helm had seen… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things and talked among themselves.… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Their life is mysterious, it is like a forest; from far off it seems a unity, it can be comprehended, described, but… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“Sophie picked her way through the forest, stepping over tree roots, and pushing aside low-lying branches, letting them snap back behind her… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
No apple is reliably self-fertile, so each tree needs a pollinator. A neighbour may well have an apple that will do that… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“Bluestar blinked. "There are cats who would argue that there should never have been a fifth Clan in the forest at all.… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
The wood nymph instructors left me in the dust. They told me not to worry about it. They'd had centuries of practice… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“So we went for a stroll in Alumni Park, a grassy lawn in front of Pepperdine that overlooks the coast. Deer trickle… — James Russell Lingerfelt Copy Share Image
“Along the Oregon coast an arm of the Pacific shushes softly against rocky shores. Above the waves, dripping silver in the moonlight,… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“Summer, in pursuit of greener pastures, packed its bags and left New Hampshire, ushering autumn to Red Grove. Overnight, the trees grew… — Genevieve Jack Copy Share Image
Spent most of the summer looking for shade. Driving around. Shade. Please? Driving in malls. I'll park a mile away I don't… — David Spade Copy Share Image
Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“And it came to me that these trees had been hardly smaller when I was yet unborn, and had stood as they… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
I had read an article about a couple who had developed a private forest in Coorg, and were working towards preserving it.… — Atul Kulkarni Copy Share Image
Franz Kafka is dead. He died in a tree from which he wouldn't come down. "Come down!" they cried to him. "Come… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree.I believe this simile largely… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
If an apple blossom or a ripe apple could tell its own story, it would be, still more than its own, the… — Lucy Larcom 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
“THE ORGANIC FOODS MYTH A few decades ago, a woman tried to sue a butter company that had printed the word 'LITE'… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“After Olestra (may cause anal leakage), people are a tad suspicious about products that do things that are too good to be… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I'm happiest in nature, in trees, rivers, streams, and I'm happiest around my kid - you know that's the funny thing, he… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
Of all the trees that have ever been cultivated by man, the genealogical tree is the driest. It is one, we may… — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived… — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
“Newrose, Oldrose, Quean Anne's lace. Water, river, stone and sun Wind over hill, under tree. Past the border none can see. Climbing… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“The grass and the vines and the willow tree were all so lush and vividly green that he was slightly awed by… — Katie Lynn Johnson Copy Share Image
“There is one tree in Gainesville I call "Grandfather" because it looks like a giant Bonsai tree. Well, that and I actually… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“As the tree matures, the older vessels become plugged with crystalline structures called tyloses, and as a result, the center of the… — Amy Stewart Copy Share Image
But the sower going forth to sow sets foot into time to come, the seeds falling on his own place. He has… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The benefits of organic coffee are significant, as chemical-free soil is good soil. This extends to healthy trees which result in good… — Rohan Marley Copy Share Image
“We must judge the tree by its fruit. The best fruits of the religious experience are the best things history has to… — William James Copy Share Image
When kids look at broccoli, they call it 'little trees,' because they see it not just for the word 'broccoli.' They see… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided… — Robert Fortune Copy Share Image
“He led them around the base of a great fallen tree whose exposed roots resembled more than anything else a huge broom… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
Because gender can be uncomfortable, there are easy ways to close this conversation. Some people will bring up evolutionary biology and apes,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
A plaque hanging on the wall of my home invites me to remember where I came from-each day. It reads, "No matter… — Mary Ellen W. Smoot Copy Share Image
I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It was one of those sumptuous days when the world is full of autumn muskiness and tangy, crisp perfection: vivid blue sky,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
