I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Missoula is a contented Western university town blessed with frigid winters that moderate the inflow of newcomers seeking refuge from Eastern cities… — M.W.Gordon Copy Share Image
Imagine a master painting that's never finished...when you can only build on previous work, you become limited by what you can paint...If… — Ian K. Smith Copy Share Image
“There is very little uglier than plowed snow. The roads are clear, though, and all the sidewalks are tinted blue from the… — Dot Hutchison Copy Share Image
“And there, with their gables lifting into the sunlight above deep hedgerows beautiful with spring. He saw the cottages of earthly men.… — Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany Copy Share Image
The smallest snowstorm on record took place an hour ago in my back yard. It was approximately two flakes. I waited for… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
But the air's so appetizin'; and the landscape through the haze Of a crisp and sunny morning of the airly autumn days… — James Whitcomb Riley Copy Share Image
“Look, here is a tree in the garden and every summer is produces apples, and we call it an apple tree because… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
When the snow is still blowing against the window-pane in January and February and the wild winds are howling without, what pleasure… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Zen is to religion what a Japanese "rock garden" is to a garden. Zen knows no god, no afterlife, no good and… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Ask a man of mere science, what is the truth of a flower: he will pull it to pieces, show you its… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism every year, every season, with every… — Carol Deppe Copy Share Image
Fair are the flowers and the children, but their subtle suggestion is fairer; Rarer is the roseburst of dawn, but the secret… — Richard Realf Copy Share Image
Spring's last-born darling, clear-eyed, sweet, Pauses a moment, with white twinkling feet, And golden locks in breezy play, Half teasing and half… — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey Copy Share Image
“Overhead the sky was melting, the cracked cream color rubbing off in cogs of brine. The fields far ahead of me in… — Blake Butler Copy Share Image
“The cherry trees are disconsolate lovers; they can't hold their pink smiles after the unkindness of that night. The wind here is… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of… — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
“How to Plant a Container-Grown Fruit Tree or Shrub 1. Use a shovel or marking paint to mark the area for the… — Katie Elzer-Peters Copy Share Image
Fall means that all of the Joy of Summer is officially over, and all of those hack fall activities that people seem… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...Awful in stern, immovable… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh. She had a vision of… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion-the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
“Dirt is chaos, gritty, full of bugs and decay, but from that dirt comes such immense beauty. Roses, tulips, tomatoes, peonies, raspberries,… — R.S. Grey Copy Share Image
If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
“Rose is undistractable, indefatigable, a problem solver. Work is her essence, her animating spirit, and the core of her impact on me.… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
The vendors of flowers in the streets of London are wont to commend them to customers by crying: "All a blowing and… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The word 'vegetable' has no precise botanical meaning in reference to food plants, and we find that almost all parts of plants… — Charles Heiser Copy Share Image
Fine fruit is the flower of commodities. It is the most perfect union of the useful and the beautiful that the earth… — Andrew Jackson Downing Copy Share Image
“The Tree and the Reed "Well, little one," said a Tree to a Reed that was growing at its foot, "why do… — Aesop Copy Share Image
In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after… — Brene Brown Copy Share Image
“Despite its abbreviated length, February's always struck me as an especially bleak month, at least in these parts. I know it's not… — John Langan Copy Share Image
The fallen autumn leaves were slick beneath Bod's feet, and the mists blurred the edges of the world. Nothing was as clean-cut… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The Raven's house is built with reeds, — Sing woe, and alas is me! And the Raven's couch is spread with weeds,… — Thomas D Copy Share Image
Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing, Teaching barren moors to smile, Painting pictures mile on mile, Holds… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I shudder to think. I might wear lace collars and laugh flower petals and pearls. People might try to pat me. I… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Ah me! what wonder-working, occult science Can from the ashes in our hearts once more The rose of youth restore? What craft… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Still, now and then they seemed to be holding behind them the surprising, the magic vistas of childhood - the sudden snow… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
