What do we look for as reward? Some little sounds, and scents, and scenes A small hand darting strawberry-ward A woman's aprons… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
There are no idealists in the plant world and no compassion. The rose and the morning glory know no mercy. Bindweed, the… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
Once we become interested in the progress of the plants in our care, their development becomes a part of the rhythm of… — Thalassa Cruso Copy Share Image
“These handkerchief gardens are a traditional German solution to apartment dwellers' yearning for a tool shed and a vegetable garden. They make… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“. . . at this season, the blossom is out in full now, there in the west early. It's a plum tree,… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
A summer breeze can be very refreshing; but if we try to put it in a tin can so we can have… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Borscht is more than a soup, it's a weather vane. When my family says they want hot borscht I know winter is… — Gertrude Berg Copy Share Image
“You wake up on a winter morning and pull up the shade, and what lay there the evening before is no longer… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
When the ground was partially bare of snow, and a few warm days had dried its surface somewhat, it was pleasant to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The storm came pretty soon," said John. "They won't have got much further before it caught them. We may find them any… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
Through the forest have I gone. But Athenian found I none, On whose eyes I might approve This flower's force in stirring… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
On the first day of May the people of the crofter townland are up betimes and busy as bees about to swarm.… — Alexander Carmichael Copy Share Image
I’m trying to embroider.” Hyacinth held up her handiwork as proof. “You’re trying to avoid—” Her mother stopped, blinking. “I say, why… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
The stars shone and now are no more. Every light got lit. When are you going to come? I am waiting desperately… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower, you… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
You cannot take the mild approach to the weeds in your mental garden. You have got to hate weeds enough to kill… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
“It was the kind of snow that didn't amount to anything on the ground. It would just dust the dead grass. The… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“And finally it seemed autumn had realized it was September. The last lingering days of summer had been pushed off stage and… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“He could see that he had too many flowers in the room, and must add more to make it come back right… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Gardens can be sharp and spiky as well as rose-embowered and honeysuckle-twined: there are corners and settings where thistles are not such… — Robin Lane Fox Copy Share Image
War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A garden is a kinetic work of art, not an object but a process, open-ended, biodegradable, nurturant, like all women's artistry. A… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poem for Liu Ya-tzu I cannot forget how in Canton we drank tea and in Chungking went over our poems when leaves… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Again and again I've taken quick glances and then for some reason I've got to sit before a picture waiting and it's… — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
In love, treat your relationship as if you are growing the most beautiful flower. Keep watering it, tend to its roots, give… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“I've always wished that spring would come...because I was so afraid of the cold world, cloaked in white. It did nothing but… — Hajin Yoo Copy Share Image
“They smoked on the patio. The wind was warm. Snow had gone to slush in the street. Clouds shredded into flying ribbons.… — Ryan Blacketter Copy Share Image
Even the most irresistible flowering plant, one that I call a 'key' performer, is part of a whole cast; it has to… — Penelope Hobhouse Copy Share Image
That in the winter, seeing a tree stripped of its leaves, and considering that within a little time, the leaves would be… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
Nature herself does not distinguish between what seed it receives. It grows whatever seed is planted; this is the way life works.… — Mary Morrissey Copy Share Image
“The first seven years of the Joshua tree's life, it's just a vertical stem. No branches," she told me while we were… — Karen M. McManus Copy Share Image
Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
While you gave her flowers, you gave me thorns. While all she did was smile, all I did was mourn. While she… — Ana Chable Copy Share Image
Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death be like autumn leaves. Rabindranath Tagore What a simple thing death is, just… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each… — Kilgore Trout Copy Share Image
“Gardens were meant to be seen, smelled, walked through, grubbed in. A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden;… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
