[This world] exists nonnecessarily, improbably, and causelessly. It exists for absolutely no reason at all. It is inexplicably and stunningly actual .… — Quentin Smith Copy Share Image
Under the snowdrifts the blossoms are sleeping, Dreaming their dreams of sunshine and June, Down in the hush of their quiet they're… — Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford Copy Share Image
I ate breakfast in the kitchen by candle-light, and then drove the five miles to the station through the most glorious October… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
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“Select a large bulb with several well-developed offsets. Clean off the soil from the offsets and pull them away from the parent… — Royal Horticultural Society Copy Share Image
Through winter-time we callon spring, And through the spring on summer call, And when abounding hedges ring Declare that winter's best of… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“It was spring, the part of spring where the bursting is done, the held-in pressures of desiccated sap-veins and gum-sealed buds are… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Mary, you make me wanna eat you Every time I see you, it's like the first time I meet you Fragrance like… — Daniel Dumile Copy Share Image
Before man's fall the rose was born,St. Ambrose says, without the thorn;But for man's fault then was the thornWithout the fragrant rose-bud… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
“You're handling someone's life energy, so it's intense, yeah, but there's like this charge from it." "I'm not sure how I feel… — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
“With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Originally from Persia, the rose had been considered by Arabs a masculine flower, and in ancient times was a symbol not only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greatest demand is not to demand anything, and the greatest service of love is not to turn it into a business:… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
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I realized that a tree never says, "I have too many branches." It simply digs deeper roots, expands itself to catch more… — Brenda Strong Copy Share Image
The garden is my second profession. It's 22 hectares, which is a big garden. I really need it, going from the flower… — Dries van Noten Copy Share Image
One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
What delights us in the spring is more a sensation than an appearance, more a hope than any visible reality. There is… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
“Under the summer roses When the flagrant crimson Lurks in the dusk Of the wild red leaves, Love, with little hands, Comes… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Simplest of blossoms! To mine eye Thou bring'st the summer's painted sky; The May-thorn greening in the nook; The minnows sporting in… — David Macbeth Moir Copy Share Image
I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour,… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
“how unfortunate that we should have had that very cold weather at a time when coal was so dear! So distressing for… — Saki Copy Share Image
Some days I do appreciate things more, eggs, flowers, but then I decide I'm only having an attack of sentimentality, my brain… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
What was love, really? Flowers, chocolate, and poetry? Or was it something else? Was it being able to finish someone's jokes? Was… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“In this admirable country in which a spring without equal covers it with flowers and its light, men are suffering hunger and… — Alistair Horne Copy Share Image
Catch! calls the Once-ler. He lets something fall. It's a Truffula Seed. It's the last one of all! You're in charge of… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
In days of yore, Opening Day of the baseball season was special, signifying that spring had come at last. Today, however, Opening… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed - chased and hunted… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Now you must practice to see something without allowing any thought to rise. Then you start sucking through your Spirit the beauty,… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Master's flower, but leave it having done, As fair as ever and… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
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There can be no barrenness in full summer. The very sand will yield something. Rocks will have mosses, and every rift will… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I don't think about being the Colin Firth of the gardening world. I live a very insular world based around my family… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
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Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome -- black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night.… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
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![“[This world] exists nonnecessarily, improbably, and causelessly. It exists for absolutely no reason at all. It is inexplicably and stunningly actual . . . The impact of this captivated realisation upon me is overwhelming. I am completely stunned. I take a few dazed steps in the dark meadow, and…” quote by Quentin Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55e/quentin-smith-54821_captivated_this-world-exists-nonnecessarily-improba_1826542.jpg)
![“Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome -- black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the snowstorms rolled in, boundless prairie storms that set the sky close to the ground, the city lights reflected against the clouds” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b4b/barack-obama-17_black_winter-came-and-the-city-chicago-turned_2949168.jpg)
