“The greater the fruit a trees bears, the greater the number of stones thrown at it.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun. — John Keats Copy Share Image
A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on — John Stott 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
“They had to pay taxes on fruit trees whether or not they bore fruit, Gorbachev remembered, “so peasants cut down their orchards.” — William Taubman Copy Share Image
The Walls enriched with Fruit-trees and faced with a covering of their leafy extensions; I should rather have said hung with different… — James Hervey 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
She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to… — Anonymous 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
I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I'd love to see a new form of social security ... everyone taught how to grow their own; fruit and nut trees… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
Look, little currant bush, I am the gardener here, and I know what I want you to be. I didn’t intend you… — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
In about 1975-76, I lived with a woman in a little hut with some fruit trees, and I had some of the… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“ax is already at the root of the trees. Cutting down or burning a tree could symbolize a nation’s judgment (Ps 80:14–16; Jer… — Anonymous 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
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
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
“The farmhouse sat on a rise at the end of a long dirt road, in a clearing surrounded by fruit trees and… — Marjorie Hudson Copy Share Image
I believe that virtually everyone has the ability to either grow some food at home, or to find an appropriate location to… — Greg Peterson Copy Share Image
Soon...I shall have all I need. I have never aspired for the material, for I have always seen the truth of that… — Vladislas Nikilovic Copy Share Image
It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees,… — Anonymous 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
“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
“I am completely stunned by the beauty of it. The villa, which will be our home for the next ten days, is… — Lizzy Dent Copy Share Image
My argument for that is: Why not create urban farms that are like parks, on public land? There actually is a park… — Novella Carpenter 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“The Sparrow Sisters' roses still bloomed on New Year's Day, their scent rich and warm even when snow weighted their petals closed.… — Ellen Herrick 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
In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things. — Henry Ward Beecher 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