Life is not an arrangement of flowers nor a walk in the park

“As dreams are the healing songs from the wilderness of our unconscious - So wild animals, wild plants, wild landscapes are the healing dreams…

— Dale Pendell

It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of the people ever really get the word about life,…

— Earl Nightingale

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

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

“In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens -- a ruin,…

— Michael Pollan

I bet plants go like 'Weeeeeeeee!' whenever they're swallowed by a giraffe.

— Anonymous

Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every plant which my heavenly father has not planted with be uprooted

— Jesus Christ

There was a product on late night TV that you could attach to your garden hose - "You can water your hard-to-reach plants with…

— Mitch Hedberg

Plant flowers in others' gardens and your life becomes a bouquet! Submitted by Lisa Letto, Coordinator, Nutrition Resource and Volunteer Centre, College of Pharmacy…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.

— Jonathan Haidt

“A flower needs the rain to grow just as much as it needs the sunshine.”

— Teresa Mummert

“Mr. Grote shows me how he grows wild rice in the stream and collects the seeds. The rice is nutty and brown. He plants…

— Christina Baker Kline

I must hurry back to my house and my flowers in Monaco.

— Lillie Langtry

“Look for light Listen for inspiration on the wind Let water cleanse your soul Set yourself on a firm foundation Serve as the plants…

— Anasazi Foundation