The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple. — Doris Janzen Longacre Copy Share Image
I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Let's all sign petitions to make Earthships and organic home gardens the normality. — Syesha Mercado Copy Share Image
“ A Halt Lie still, my soul, the Sun of Grace Is warm within this garden space Beneath tall kindly trees. The… — Robert Hugh Benson Copy Share Image
A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far… — Russell Page Copy Share Image
Every parent has the responsibility to cultivate his child's heart. If we leave our children's heart alone, they tend to become like… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I was born in 1972, which means that in "rock" terms I have no business addressing "the kids" unless it's to shoo… — Dan Bejar Copy Share Image
Any mundane activity can become meditative. Digging a hole in the garden, planting new roses in the garden - you can do… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
History counts its skeletons in round numbers. A thousand and one remains a thousand, as though the one had never existed: an… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
When I grew up in central London, we had six pavement slabs for a garden. — Keeley Hawes Copy Share Image
A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses,… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
An optimistic gardener is one who believes that whatever goes down must come up. — Leslie Hall Copy Share Image
Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
What good is all our busy religion if God isn't in it? What good is it if we've lost majesty, reverence, worship-an… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Love—the desire to love and be loved, to hold and be held, to give love even if your experience as a recipient… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
I want you to know you're in my heart... growing into a beautiful garden. — Delta Goodrem Copy Share Image
If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become...will I know how to seize that… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears--I find weeding… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
Our minds work like a garden. It is fertile ground that accepts any and everything we plant. Good or evil, constructive or… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
It is always exciting to open the door and go out into the garden for the first time on any day. — Marion Dudley Cran Copy Share Image
In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I realize that the memories I cherish most are not the first night successes, but of simple, everyday things: walking through our… — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
When at last I took the time to look into the heart of a flower, it opened up a whole new world;… — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
At the front of my home, in the garden, is a huge piece of clear quartz. — Miranda Kerr Copy Share Image
Whilst all the land was ringed with bristling arms And flames laid waste our world, All that was left me was a… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I sing Connecticut, her charms / Of rivers, orchards, blossoming ridges. / I sing her gardens, fences, farms, / Spiders and midges. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The word "art" does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank. — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
