When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and bitter, sprang… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“In life, we plant seeds everywhere we go. Some fall on fertile ground needing very little to grow. Some fall on rocky… — Sanjo Jendayi Copy Share Image
It's quite sad to see how many people I've known over that years that just die off, you know like wilted flowers.… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
who knows if the moon's a balloon,coming out of a keen city in the sky--filled with pretty people? ( and if you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We are alone.” His husky timbre tickled her heart. Kitty swallowed and turned, praying at least this once her emotions wouldn’t display… — Amber Lynn Perry Copy Share Image
In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity; and the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
i have found what you are like the rain (Who feathers frightened fields with the superior dust-of-sleep. wields easily the pale club… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Botany, n. The science of vegetables - those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
That's all I can do, is continue to plant the seeds; some will be trees, some will be plants, some will be… — Salaam Remi Copy Share Image
“Greet the sky and live, blossom!... Yet even as the wind stirs your petals, flowers fall. My flowers are eternal, my songs… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
It might take a while before I open up, before I blossom, but I'm sure it will be worth it. it's said… — Arianna Lyzette Copy Share Image
I can't resist a pretty plant. When I see it, I want it, I buy it, take it home, and plant it… — Cassandra Danz Copy Share Image
But though first love's impassioned blindness Has passed away in colder light, I still have thought of you with kindness, And shall… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
“On the north side of the train the windows were plastered with snow, and on the south side great clouds of snow… — Benedict Freedman Copy Share Image
I could go on and on. But that is just what gardening is, going on and on. My philistine of a husband… — Margery Fish Copy Share Image
Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
The divide between a 'wild' plant and what is suitable for the garden is unnatural and meaningless. Gardens begin and end in… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
“specifically and the perennial philosophy generally. Before we do the conscious work of self-development, we are the seeds of what we may… — Beatrice Chestnut Copy Share Image
“What had Miss Finch said, all those years ago? That there were no do-overs, no comebacks? That once someone was gone, they… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
Damn flowers. Nice kids, the ones who skated out and gave us them. But the flowers, the stem fell off. I stepped… — Phil Esposito Copy Share Image
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age.… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“The almond blossom from the tree has gone, to be replaced by new green shoots. It smells of spring, and mown grass,… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon,… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
“It is not only the viability and variety of the seed that makes the harvest look plumpy. Sometimes, the soil must value… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
“She returned to the floor, and a tray appeared beside her with a sandwich, glass of milk, and some cubes of cantaloupe.… — Melanie Dobson Copy Share Image
Lilacs, False Blue, White, Purple, Colour of lilac, Your great puffs of flowers Are everywhere in this my New England ... Lilacs… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
“In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
Spring, of all seasons most gratuitous, Is fold of untaught flower, is race of water, Is earth's most multiple, excited daughter; And… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
I suppose that for most people one of the darker joys of gardening is that once you've got started it's not at… — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
“Although deer season doesn’t start until November in Maine, the fields of October are often alive with gunshots; the locals are shooting… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“It is easier to tell a person what life is not, rather than to tell them what it is. A child understands… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Ask of Her, the mighty Mother. Her reply puts this other Question: What is Spring?- Growth in every thing - Flesh and… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
January cold and desolate; February dripping wet; March wind ranges; April changes; Birds sing in tune To flowers of May, And sunny… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
“The autumn leaves, arranged in two or three scarlet terraces among the pine trees, have fallen like ancient dreams. The red and… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
All forests have their own personality. I don't just mean the obvious differences, like how an English woodland is different from a… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“They don't plant in rows because they're idiots,and they don't use farm equipment because they're idiots,and they don't plant in spring because… — John Green Copy Share Image
