One night reviled, Before break of morn, Amid the roses…

“Let’s call me a shadow child, overlooked rather than broken. I’m the teddy bear gathering dust bunnies under the bed, not the one-legged soldier.”

— Dot Hutchison

“That man would betray his own shadow. And for what? A child's tale.' 'Is it?' Mag looked at her. 'Is it only a tale?'…

— Patricia A. McKillip

“I promise to respect and protect your aloneness, knowing that everything created must have its period of darkness: child and bulb, poem and personality.…

— anne morrow lindbergh

“But any picture could deal with the problem of light. The problem with this picture is greater than that of reflective surfaces - it's…

— Whitney Otto

My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.

— Joan Baez

My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In…

— Daniel O'Connell

A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.

— Esther Meynell

This, at last, was where things were as they ought to be. Everything was in its place -- the tree, the earth underneath, the…

— Jean Liedloff

Sometimes, sometimes it is really difficult to turn and walk away from someone you have loved and cherished for so long. You know deep…

— David Kreger

Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again.

— Ernie Banks

One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,…

— Anonymous

“Most girls get flowers or candy. I get a declaration of martial law.”

— Lisa Shearin

Set NOT your hearts on the flowers of this world. They shall fade and die. Prize the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of…

— Anonymous

A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad…

— Emily Dickinson

“It is not the force of the wind, but the depth of the roots.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough