Whether you are cooking, cleaning house, or planting flowers, try to concentrate on the textures, the smells, colors, tastes, sounds, all Zen… — Jerry Lynch Copy Share Image
Can anything be more grotesque and barbarous than our 'florists' bouquets,' a series of concentric rings of flowers of divers colours, bordered… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
When wholeheartedly we help someone, when in a natural and spontaneous way we care for the tree and water the flowers in… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
“My brother said something, but I’d been distracted by a nice flower in someone’s back yard. Wanted to pick it for my… — Sam Pink Copy Share Image
“There comes a time when the fall of snow is no longer the start of a marvellous adventure. There comes a time… — Lance Parkin Copy Share Image
Your own self-will and anxiety, your hurry and labor, disturb your peace and prevent Me from working in you. Look at the… — Gerhard Tersteegen Copy Share Image
Written in support of abolishing the Corn Laws, it became Elliott's most famous poem. The Peoples Anthem When wilt thou save the… — Ebenezer Elliott Copy Share Image
“The autumn winds rushing Waft the leaves that are searest, But our flower was in flushing, When blighting was nearest. Fleet foot… — Sir Walter Scott Copy Share Image
You may wear your virtues as a crown, As you walk through life serenely, And grace your simple rustic gown With a… — Phoebe Cary Copy Share Image
Love seems to beautify and inspire all nature. It raises the earthly caterpillar into the ethereal butterfly, it paints the feathers in… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with… — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the… — Jean Ingelow Copy Share Image
Heart's ease! one could look for half a day Upon this flower, and shape in fancy out Full twenty different tales of… — Mary Howitt Copy Share Image
From the gardener's point of view, November can be the worst month to be faced: Nature is winding things down, the air… — H. Peter Loewer Copy Share Image
It was the coldest winter ever! I thought last winter was the coldest winter ever, but I was wrong now wasn't I?… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
“If you want to save seeds from year to year, you need to grow open-pollinated varieties. The words “heirloom” and “open-pollinated” are… — Katie Elzer-Peters Copy Share Image
“In some ways, my mother was right; a tree does look the same from the top as it does from the bottom:… — Elissa Janine Hoole Copy Share Image
“Deep in the woods, beside the swift-running stream, I stood listening, until the faint rustle of leaves reached me—soft songs drifting on… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
“That's my Middle West-not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Love can become devotion. Love is the first step; only then can devotion flower. But for us even love is a faraway… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Just as I can't see a clear brook without at least stopping to dangle my feet in it, I can't see a… — Sophie Scholl Copy Share Image
All of us gardeners know that nothing comes out the way you planned. It's a different garden every year, and it's always… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Life isn't something you can give an answer to today. You should enjoy the process of waiting, the process of becoming what… — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
The evening light was like honey in the trees When you left me and walked to the end of the street Where… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Someone has said, 'To be a saint is to have loved many things' —many things — the tree, the dog, the sky,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“I was a flower that bloomed and sparked way too fast. He took me in ’cause I was pretty in all kinds… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
When I was in my early and mid-teens, my style changed constantly. My clothing was inspired by 'Annie Hall' for a while,… — Maya Hawke Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about gay people is that you can't really put on a wedding without them. They're the ones who make… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
A vase of flowers or greens will bring even a dull hotel room to life in the most delightful way. The small… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,-- This art of writing billet-doux-- In buds, and odors, and bright hues!… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
“The industrial towns were far away, a smudge of smoke and misery hidden by the curve of the earth's surface. Down here… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Once there was a gypsy queen who wore on her wrist a chain of six lucky charms - a golden crown, a… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
When tending a vast and beautiful garden, you have to plant many seeds, never knowing ahead of time which ones will germinate,… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
“Each October I walk into the woods looking for bones: rabbit skulls, a grackle spine, the pelvis of a deer with the… — Charles Rafferty Copy Share Image
Always give importance to good things done to you by people, if you think bad about them, it will hurt you just… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Wind hissed through the leaves overhead, and for a moment it was like being underwater–the late afternoon light shining coral red through… — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
Just when summer gets perfect-fresh nights, soft sun, casual breezes, crushingly full and quietly cooling trees, empty beaches, and free weekends- it… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
The bright, frosty day declined as they walked and spoke together. The sun dipped in the river far behind them, and the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Christmas ribbons decked every crystal ball knocker on every sparkling door as far as the eye could see. Through the snowy streets… — Dew Pellucid Copy Share Image
“But it was the Count’s review of the Contents—a list of 107 essays on the likes of Constancy, Moderation, Solitude, and Sleep—that… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
