The desert floras shame us with their cheerful adaptations to the seasonal limitations. Their whole duty is to flower and fruit, and… — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
“The flower that smiles today Tomorrow dies; All that we wish to stay Tempts and then flies; What is this world's delight?… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
Since September it's just gotten colder and colder. There's less daylight now, I've noticed too. This can only mean one thing -… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
My favorite season is autumn, and Maine is lovely for that reason. In Maine, autumn begins on July 29. That's when you… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Maybe I’ll come back as somebody else. I’ll be the wild-haired girl Adam meets in his first week at university. ‘Hi, are… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
“The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself. When the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Michael patted him on the shoulder. “I like this plan,” he said. “You and Eve, picking up cake and flowers, and you… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
I like to encourage people interested in gardening or planting to begin with a simple herb garden. Even if you live in… — Anna Getty Copy Share Image
I shall open my eyes and ears. Once every day I shall simply stare at a tree, a flower, a cloud, or… — Clyde S. Kilby Copy Share Image
Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The colder the weather, the bigger the gun Got to rock a lot of clothes if you tryina hide one In June… — Willie the Kid Copy Share Image
The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Gardening is really an extended form of reading, of history and philosophy. The garden itself has become like writing a book. I… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Love is a rose But you better not pick it. It only grows When it's on the vine. Handful of thorns And… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
“The instant of petrified violence that sometimes foreruns a summer storm saturated the hushed yard, and in the unearthly tinseled light rusty… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Oh, Marilla," she exclaimed one Saturday morning, coming dancing in with her arms full of gorgeous boughs" 'I'm so glad I live… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. To the world, you may… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow , and drives the bee to match at home Their… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Walking on willow tree roads by a river dappled with peach blossoms, I look for spring light, but am everywhere lost. Birds… — Wang Wei Copy Share Image
When you can discover where the fresh colors of the faded flower abide, or the music of the broken lyre, seek life… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I've got my organic veg patch and fruit; we're very garden-obsessed, my husband and I. He designed a garden for me for… — Stella McCartney Copy Share Image
“It was spring, the barren time in March when you cannot be sure if it is really warner, but you are so… — Maureen F. McHugh Copy Share Image
And this, and many other like blessings, we enjoy daily. And for most of them, because they be so common, most men… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
I want to have a cow and I want to buy a pig. I want to have a flower garden and I… — Ethel Cain Copy Share Image
The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
The spring rains woke the dormant tillers, and bright green shoots sprang from the moist earth and rose like sleepers stretching after… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
All right, You Great Git, You've asked for it. I'll cover the world in Tastee-Freez and Wimpy Burgers. I'll fill it with… — Peter Cook Copy Share Image
“For now she knew he had been right--the fields might fall to fallow and the birds might stop their song awhile; the… — Susan Kearsley Copy Share Image
The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was… — Frances Parkinson Keyes Copy Share Image
The principle of martial arts is not a thing that can be learned, like a science, by fact-finding and instruction in facts.… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“The kind of soil in your area determines the type of crop you will plant to harvest; The kind of potentials in… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I find that a real gardener is not a man who cultivates flowers; he is a man who cultivates the soil. He… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
“The very thing keeping me alive is also killing me—love. No wonder the rose symbolizes both love and death. They should have… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Winter is on the road to spring. Some think it a surly road. I do not. A primrose road to spring were… — William Alfred Quayle Copy Share Image
“In the mind, weeds are negative self-defeating beliefs and ideas that repeat quietly, over and over again, unchallenged, until they seem to… — Asoka Selvarajah Copy Share Image
