A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
“As we have seen, prayer, celebration of the religious offices, alms, consoling the afflicted, the cultivation of a little piece of ground,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“We know now that all the people of Polynesia carry taro root and coconut palm and breadfruit with them when they settle… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Because by the time I went to the village school in Switzerland, we're talking about September 1965, she was finishing 'Wait Until… — Sean Hepburn Ferrer Copy Share Image
I have a lot of fruit trees and my own little vegetable garden and chickens. And every time I eat, I bless… — Gisele Bundchen Copy Share Image
Fame is but a fruit tree- so very unsound. It can never flourish 'till its stock is in the ground. — Nick Drake Copy Share Image
“Clearings opened on either side. Familiar smells drifted in the air: fennel, skirrets and alexanders, then wild garlic, radishes and broom. John… — Lawrence Norfolk Copy Share Image
“I invited Intuition to stay in my house when my roommates went North. I warned her that I am territorial and I… — J. Ruth Gendler Copy Share Image
First, I emptied the closets of your clothes, threw out the bowl of fruit, bruised from your touch, left empty the jars… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“In his rearview mirror, I saw something flash in his eyes. "You want to know?" he sneered. "Let me imagine, Agha sahib.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Let other men gather bright gold to themselves and own many acres of well-ploughed soil, let endless worry trouble them, with enemies… — Tibullus Copy Share Image
From the explicit prohibition against the destruction of fruit trees, our sages deduced that it is all the more forbidden to destroy… — Yehuda Levi Copy Share Image
“the blossom of our family, like one of those miraculous fruit trees that taps into an invisible vein of nurture and bears… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“The green painted concrete out in front of the house, which at first seemed like a novel way to save money on… — Shaun Tan Copy Share Image
“JAMES HALE sat at a side-street noodle-stall. The stall was set-up underneath the shade of a row of fruit trees. He watched… — James A. Newman Copy Share Image
It is very rare to find ground which produces nothing; if it is not covered with flowers, with fruit trees and grains,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“Your jam puts store-bought to shame. As I ate it on a fresh croissant from the French bakery at the Farmers Market… — Kim Fay Copy Share Image
“How can seemingly unprocessed foods like fruit be sub-optimal for our health? While our Paleolithic ancestors may have eaten copious fruit, it… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“The imagination doesn’t crop annually like a reliable fruit tree. The writer has to gather whatever’s there: sometimes too much, sometimes too… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
There were many fruit trees in our house when I was growing up and I never missed climbing any of them. — Babu Antony Copy Share Image
“He criss-crossed the kitchen-garden beyond the asparagus beds: fruit trees and strawberry beds and bean poles and a chicken-wire enclosure where raspberry… — Philippa Pearce Copy Share Image
