“--Gardens, not buildings-- Great projects start out feeling like buildings. There are architects, materials, staff, rigid timelines, permits, engineers, a structure. It… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Among archetypal images, the Sacred Tree is one of the most widely know symbols on Earth. There are few cultures in which… — Christopher McDowell Copy Share Image
Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to… — Gertrude Jekyll Copy Share Image
And still the mad magnificent herald Spring assembles beauty from forgetfulness with the wild trump of April:witchery of sound and odour drives… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Please drop a note to the clerk of the weather, and have a good, rousing snow-storm -- say on the twenty-second. None… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“How many a time have I stood watching the toads mating, or a pair of hares having a boxing match in the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Coquetry is the thorn that guards the rose - easily trimmed off when once plucked.… — Donald Grant Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Finn wanted to collect the plants he knew he could sell, and he was teaching Maia. He climbed to the top of… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
“Whether it is because the faith which creates has ceased to exist in me, or because reality takes shape in the memory… — Marcel Proust 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
As I hold the flower in my hand and think of trying to describe it, I realize how poor a creature I… — Celia Thaxter 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
“In the general course of things, when beauty passes, the flower bows its head upon the stem and fails. Sometimes, though, when… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
... the most fiendish plant I know of, the sort of thing Beelzebub might pluck to make a bouquet for his mother-in-law… — Edward Augustus Bowles Copy Share Image
“I wish that friend were you, Beast. Please come with me. We’ll take the flower to my father together. We’ll make him… — Vivienne Savage Copy Share Image
My granda always told me that fall's the time to root up something you don't want coming back to trouble you.' Kote… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The world breaks a little bit every time we cut down a tree. It's so much easier to cut one down than… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens.… — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
The many varieties and wonderful colors of the modern dahlia make it a totally different flower from the one our grandmothers knew.… — Helena Rutherfurd Ely Copy Share Image
If you see a kid in school, who is a little shy ... that's when you should reach out. When you do,… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
I have been a joy to live with all spring: Upbeat, warm and tender, uncomplicated, and loving. I am no trouble at… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. ... Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows, passion-flowers cross-pollinate… — Alan Coren Copy Share Image
