As for the meaning of gardens, particular gardens may have, of course, all sorts of different meanings - emotive, historical, emblematic, religious,… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
“Wondering When the Strings Will Snap” poem: “The marigolds herald autumn’s colors already In their sun-shrine faces, iconographic Floral worship of their… — Elizabeth Barrette Copy Share Image
“The flowers are for the woman I glimpsed for just a moment the other night before she ran away with tears brimming… — Grace Willows Copy Share Image
The Bauls say, "Don't try to force anything." Let life be a deep let-go. See God opening millions of flowers every day… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Summer is a season of opposites - a time where you want to do nothing and do everything... summer encourages us to… — Allison Saft Copy Share Image
“You all know we are only passing by. We only walk over these stones a few times, our boats float a little… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind, Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets,… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I have always had a tumultuous relationship with plants. I fall head over heels, we start off so well but within days,… — Angela Scanlon Copy Share Image
Man is born as a seed; he can become a flower, he may not. It all depends on you, what you do… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“...the teacher picked a flower and said: ‘Look at the pretty flower, Betty.’ Betty, filled with spiritual radiance, said, ‘All the flowers… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
In Eastern lands they talk in flowers, And they tell in a garland their loves and cares; Each blossom that blooms in… — James Gates Percival Copy Share Image
But these are flowers that fly and all but sing: And now from having ridden out desire They lie closed over in… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“I'll go see what it was," said Cinder, slipping into the hallway and darting down the stairs. Jacin was siting at the… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
“When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice that it is small, but we do not criticize it as… — W. Timothy Gallwey Copy Share Image
Age cannot Love destroy, But perfidy can blast the flower, Even when in most unwary hour It blooms in Fancy's bower. Age… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
An angel, legend has it, took pity on a little shepherd girl who had nothing to give to the Infant Jesus in… — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
When the hornet hangs in the hollyhock, And the brown bee drones in the rose, And the west is a red-streaked four-o'clock,… — Madison Cawein Copy Share Image
I thought that we were all like trees, flexible youths, saplings, who grow up heavy and stiff, spread seeds and get chopped… — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
“Someone other than I might have used the word “roots”. It is not part of my vocabulary. I don’t like the word,… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“His nature had developed like a flower, had borne blossoms of scarlet flame. Out of its secret hiding-place had crept his Soul,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
Today we may face some boring task or idle conversation that feels like a complete waste of time. Perhaps next week or… — Mort Crim Copy Share Image
“The trouble is, when you gift a girl with flowers your choice can be construed so many different ways. A man might… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“in Just- spring when the world is mud- luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee and eddieandbill come running from marbles and piracies… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
In gardens it's not just plants and insects and microbes that grow. People grow too, and the best bit is that they… — Costa Georgiadis Copy Share Image
Consider the rose...The rose is the sweetest smelling flower of all, and it's the most beautiful because it's the most simple, right?… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
Every garden scheme should have a backbone, a central idea beautifully phrased. Every wall, path, stone and flower should have its relationship… — Edwin Lutyens Copy Share Image
The refusal to feel takes a heavy toll. Not only is there an impoverishment of our emotional and sensory life, flowers are… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
they ran in the sunlight, creating their own breeze which pressed their dresses into their damp skin. Reaching a kind of square… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Gardeners work with an ever-receding ideal of perfection; no sooner is something growing well than they see how to place it better… — Robin Lane Fox Copy Share Image
“At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a short, cold Christmas; and as… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
When the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, That fosters the droop-headed flowers all, And hides the… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection.… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again,… — Max Muller Copy Share Image