Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
In every seed there must be a fruit, and in any fruit there must be a potential forests. Nobody is born without… — Ayor Olu From Nigeria Copy Share Image
Joe Klein is the flower of American political journalism, a sharp raconteur who shows traces of the gonzo style that was in… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
“A gentleman in those days consulted his heirs about tree planting. Should you plant a group of copper beeches against a group… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
You could say that evil is contagious in that we have this mesmerizing mentor in Uncle Charlie who comes into your life.… — Park Chan-wook Copy Share Image
In this story, the sun moves. In this story, every night meets a dawn and burns away in the bright morning. In… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“That's Lily all over, you know: she works like a slave preparing the ground and sowing her seed; but the day she… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Even in a town that's covered with snow three-quarters of the year, it's unbearably cold standing in the shade of someone who's… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
God is not a person at all. You cannot worship God. You can live in a godly way but you cannot worship… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Fair Flora! Now attend thy sportful feast, Of which some days I with design have past; A part in April and a… — Ovid Copy Share Image
People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
The people always know that some of the grain will be good, some of the crop will be saved, some will return… — Meridel Le Sueur Copy Share Image
Spring is beautiful everywhere, but it is more than beautiful in Lebanon. Spring is the spirit of an unknown God speeding through… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“The last rain had come at the beginning of April and now, at the first of June, all but the hardiest mosquitoes… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
“But at sunset the clouds gathered again, bringing an earlier night, and the snow began to fall straight and steadily from a… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Autumn calls the forest to rest, to exhale in a flood of colors rubbed to a fiery warmth on the hearth of… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Ours is only a little power, seems like, next to theirs," Moss said. "But it goes down deep. It's all roots. It's… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Like the magnolia tree, She bends with the wind, Trials and tribulation may weather her, Yet, after the storm her beauty blooms,… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
Autumn teaches us that fruition is also death; that ripeness is a form of decay. The willows, having stood for so long… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
The more often we see the things around us - even the beautiful and wonderful things - the more they become invisible… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
I like autumn. The drama of it; the golden lion roaring through the back door of the year, shaking its mane of… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“To desire orchids is to have a desire that will never be, can never be, fully requited. A collector who wants one… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Jacob wrote that the true poet 'is like a man who is happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he is allowed to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have spoken to plants myself, and if pressed for conclusions would have to say that those I threatened did better than… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
If God is Mother, then we need only gather together with people and adore her through rituals intended to satisfy the female… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“It was mid-May time, bringing with it weather not, perhaps, quite so blooming as that assumed to be natural to the month… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Apparently with no surprise To any happy Flower The Frost beheads it at its play -- In accidental power -- The blonde… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“It was a cold, bleak December morning in Alaska, a place so far north on planet Earth that if there were such… — Dew Pellucid Copy Share Image
I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I don't know what I can do about the aging. Yes, I am aging. Oh my God, I'm aging all the time.… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
In fine weather the old gentelman is almost constantly in the garden; and when it is too wet to go into it,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
April Rain It is not raining rain to me, It's raining daffodils; In every dimpled drop I see Wild flowers on the… — Robert Loveman Copy Share Image
The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“But other people fast or walk long pilgrimages to honor the spirit of what they believe makes our world whole and lovely.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I was in high school - and I went to an all-boys Catholic high school, a Jesuit high school, where I was… — Brett Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Love . . . is like nature, but in reverse; first it fruits, then it flowers, then it seems to wither, then… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
