A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
It could be 110 degrees in my house or outside, and yet I still have to wrap myself in bed spreads because… — Naquitta Faith Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is better not to talk about art by using the word "art". If we just act with awareness and integrity,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful sounds that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
If a garden require it, now trench it ye may, one trench not a yard, from another go lay; Which being well… — Thomas Tusser Copy Share Image
Maybe nothingness is to be without your presence, without you moving, slicing the noon like a blue flower, without you walking later… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Who can fear Too many stars, though each in heaven shall roll- Too many flowers, though each shall crown the year? Say… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“Mr. Arbuthnot certainly was not prepared for her response to his statement that February was a dangerous month. “It is,” answered Laura… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Entrance into the Old Ways begins with the pricking of a finger with a rose thorn, which produces a drop of blood.… — Raven Grimassi Copy Share Image
“I looked up at the moon and stars through the glass roof above and gasped at the stunning sight, like a mural… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
“The first sorrow of autumn is the slow good-bye of the garden that stands so long in the evening—a brown poppy head,… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
A flower blooms in the spring, and dies in the fall. A tree wakes up in the spring, and sleeps in the… — Amber Hope Copy Share Image
Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
I very much wish that some day or other you may have time to learn Greek, because that language is an idea.… — Sara Coleridge Copy Share Image
Stories come from violence, they come from sex. They come from death. They come from the dark places that everyone has to… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“He closed his eyes in the languor of sleep. His eyelids trembled as if they felt the vast cyclic movement of the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will;… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Here is a tree rooted in African soil, nourished with waters from the rivers of Afrika. Come and sit under its shade… — Robert Sobukwe Copy Share Image
We are a species that has lost its way. Everything natural, every flower or tree, and every animal have important lessons to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Not as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai. Coiling… — Clark Ashton Smith Copy Share Image
I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
The autumn air is clear, The autumn moon is bright. Fallen leaves gather and scatter, The jackdaw perches and starts anew. We… — Li Bai Copy Share Image
As soon as I turned the key I saw it hanging, the color of fire and sunset. the colour of flamboyant flowers.… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
We must not drift away from the humble works, because these are the works nobody will do. It is never too small.… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Among gardeners, enthusiasm and experience rarely exist in equal measures. The beginner dreams of home-grown bouquets and baskets of ripe fruit, the… — Roger Swain Copy Share Image
It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By streams that never find… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Mount Fuji was mostly invisible n the summer, but on clear days she could see its grand and graceful silhouette dominating the… — Sara Backer Copy Share Image
The careful insect 'midst his works I view, Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant dew, With golden treasures load his little… — John Gay Copy Share Image
I honor the wisdom of life. I learn from life in all its forms. The tree teaches me. The sparrow and the… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the… — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside.… — James Salter Copy Share Image
One way can be learned by starting to see the magic in everything. Sometimes it seems to be hiding but it is… — Joshua Kadison Copy Share Image
The first recognition of beauty was one of the most significant events in the evolution of human conciousness... seeing beauty in a… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“That apple orchard is still in flower," I told myself. "Time has passed it by, leaving it behind in a moment that… — Andreï Makine Copy Share Image
Gone were but the Winter, Come were but the Spring, I would go to a covert Where the birds sing; Where in… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
