Fortunate are the nations that can build wooden houses. Because wood breathes, transforms, deteriorates, like us. It is also important to have… — Henryk Skolimowski Copy Share Image
Although life may seem as if you are walking across glass, or swimming through an ocean of tack, at the end of… — Collin Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I never could see that delicacy of constitution is pretty, either in plants or women. No doubt there are many lovely flowers… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“She walked indoors, and staring once more at her orchids, thought to herself: ‘Flowers have their spring-time, a time for fresh blossoms… — Cao Xueqin Copy Share Image
“Why (on Earth) would you want to be a would-be? Anyone who knows how to spell rose can be a romantic. Any… — John Demko Copy Share Image
All this new stuff goes on top turn it over, turn it over wait and water down from the dark bottom turn… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
My father was often impatient during March, waiting for winter to end, the cold to ease, the sun to reappear. March was… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
When a person has swum, traveled, run a lathe, planted flowers, ridden a motorcycle, made wine, painted a picture, parachuted, he has… — Erving Polster Copy Share Image
You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree — the greatest tree in the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Edible flowers have many culinary uses. Sought after for their flavors, aromas, textures and colours, edible flowers are used fresh, frozen, dried,… — Constance Kirker Copy Share Image
The pale pink light of dawn sparkled on branch and leaf and stone. Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Come with me into the woods where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“It rained; then it snowed, and the snow stayed on the paved ground for long enough to become evenly blacked with soot… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
Everything is complex and everything is simple. The rose has no why attached to it, it blooms because it blooms, how no… — Andre Comte-Sponville Copy Share Image
As you smell the fragrance of a flower by handing it or the smell of sandalwood by rubbing it against a stone,… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
there's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Does the rose complain that it is created for a short time to blossom, smile at the world, share its sweet fragrance… — Albert Kang Copy Share Image
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any… — Alex Faickney Osborn Copy Share Image
In reality, what difference is there between a flower and our imagination? There is none truly, for the world is a living… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you sleep, Desire grows in you Like a vine in the forest. Like a monkey in the forest You jump from… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Most of [her ashes] fell into the river in a long gray curtain. But some was caught by the wind and blown… — Kimberly Cutter Copy Share Image
My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It does seem to me that the British in particular, British horticultural literature and television programmes, focus a huge amount on how… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
“I could have hired someone else. Someone less flawed, perhaps, or at least better at hiding it. But none of them would… — Vanessa Diffenbaugh Copy Share Image
Their elegant shape, showy colors, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
“Not roses or carnations, chrysanthemums or tulips. For her, Gerbera daisies, not because of the 30 species, the fifth-most cut flower in… — Teresa Leo Copy Share Image
When Nature gives a gorgeous rose, Or yields the simplest fern, She writes this motto on the leaves, "To whom it may… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams.… — Abram L. Urban Copy Share Image
“When a man gives you a rose what you see may not be what he intends. You may think he sees you… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“We are, in a certain way, defined as much by our potential as by its expression. There is a great difference between… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
“But in summer, welcoming summer, the rocks are soft-fledged with moss. The forest floor is bouncy with fresh shoots and enthusiastic blooms;… — Tara O'Brady Copy Share Image
Having been created in the image and likeness of God, unlike trees or flowers or fire or the moon, we are most… — Daniel Horan Copy Share Image
It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If we hadn’t our bewitching autumn foliage, we should still have to credit the weather with one feature which compensates for all… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“There is something in expressly touching in nature round Petersburg, when at the approach of spring she puts forth all her might,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Is it too ingenuous to imagine that anything can be left to say about a garden? Garden literature, descriptive, reminiscent, and technical,… — Harrison Gray Otis Dwight Copy Share Image
Don't ever believe that you are going to be peaceful-life is not like that. When you are changing all the time, you've… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
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