Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts.… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
Trees are, after all, our largest and oldest living things. They are Australia's natural, national treasures - the true Elders of our… — Richard Allen Copy Share Image
Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to… — Ketzel Levine Copy Share Image
Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
One bit of advice someone gave me - which I haven't yet tried - is that if you go to an area… — Anthony Head Copy Share Image
There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whether that expansion is towards the beings around you or flora, fauna, and creatures. Love has so many unique yet consistent forms.… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
“Years ago, when she'd studied the constructions of stem, blade, stamen, ovule, she loved the infinite possibilities of the plant kingdom- but… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; close up they are apt to appear ugly… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind; a Flora of the whole globe… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The Laird of Coll was undoubtedly a hard man. He didn’t smile often, but when he did, it was as if the… — Monica McCarty Copy Share Image
The virtuous to those mansions go Where pleasures unembitter'd flow, Where, leading up a jocund band, Vigor and Youth dance hand in… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
The desert floras shame us with their cheerful adaptations to the seasonal limitations. Their whole duty is to flower and fruit, and… — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
The celebrated Aboriginal painter Albert Namatjira loved the Ghost Gums of the Northern Territory... They are evocatively Australian, their white trunks contrasting… — Richard Allen Copy Share Image
Meditation is another dimension of natural beauty. People talk about appreciating natural beauty-climbing mountains, seeing giraffes and tigers in Africa, and all… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I can't think of any flower that wouldn't be suitable to merge with an image of a newborn, and as I was… — Anne Geddes Copy Share Image
Yes, gentlemen, give me the map of any country, its configuration, its climate, its waters, its winds, and the whole of its… — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image
“The low, white house nestled at the top of the meadows, its back against the hill that rose behind it, protecting it… — Paula Brackston Copy Share Image
Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
I'd rather enjoy the money, and then be buried, offering my body back to the flora and fauna of which I have… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The danger wasn’t over. Rolling her around so that she floated on her back, he swam her to shore. A much easier… — Monica McCarty Copy Share Image
Dreams were the worst. Of course I dreamed of food and love, but they were pleasant rather than otherwise. But then I'd… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
The design of the gum is expressed in the flow of it trunk and limbs, and the design of the European tree… — Hans Heysen Copy Share Image
Mice and any rodentia. Guinea pigs. Even rabbits, I can't stand. Rabbits are cousins to rats. It's a class thing. If you… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
