Then there are those who plant. they endure storms and all the many vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
Although you may not stumble across a Martian in the garden, you might stumble across yourself. The day that happens, you'll probably… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that the only flowers to… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
Influence often isn't noticed until it blossoms later in the garden of someone else's life. Our words and actions may land close… — Elizabeth Price Foley Copy Share Image
“If someone drowned at sea a couple of hundred years ago they’d either start to decompose immediately or they’d get eaten by… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
It is this subtle dimension of understanding that marks the southwestern Indian peoples from other religions and separates tribal peoples from the… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
Within my heart a garden grows, wild with violets and fragrant rose. bright daffodils line the narrow path, my footsteps silent as… — Robin Jones Gunn Copy Share Image
Only a fool takes offense at the truth, Jessamine. They are awful, of that there is no question. But they are also… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
“No,' she whispered over those fields. 'No, you can't have this part of me.' If they tried to take Sam, she'd do… — Anna-Marie McLemore Copy Share Image
Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
In all places where there is a Summer and a Winter, and where your Gardens of pleasure are sometimes clothed with their… — John Worlidge Copy Share Image
Imagine your mind as a garden and thoughts as the seeds you plant. Habitual negative, unhealthy, self-critical thoughts produce the weeds and… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pessimism. Shadows… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
Of all our sunny world I wish only for a garden sofa where a cat is sunning itself. There I should sit… — Edith Södergran Copy Share Image
If government ownership of land and natural resources was the best way to protect the environment, then we should have found a… — Malcolm Wallop Copy Share Image
A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close… — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
Snowstorms may yet whiten fields and gardens, high winds may howl about the trees and chimneys, but the little blue heralds persistently… — Neltje Blanchan Copy Share Image
The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in… — Texas Bix Bender Copy Share Image
But well-a-day, the gardener careless grew, The maids and fairies both were kept away, And in a drought the caterpillars threw Themselves… — William Browne Copy Share Image
My first memory as a child growing up is of playing in the gardens, the mosque is really a gigantic garden, probably… — Rula Jebreal Copy Share Image
I adore summer entertaining. For a dinner party at the farm, I might prepare homemade fettuccine with porcini mushrooms, soft-shell crabs, spinach… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
Always try to grow in your garden some plant or plants out of the ordinary, something your neighbors never attempted. For you… — Richardson Wright Copy Share Image
A garden is a kinetic work of art, not an object but a process, open-ended, biodegradable, nurturant, like all women's artistry. A… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
“Call them what you want. Garden gnomes. Lawn ornaments. Little evil outdoor statuary hell-bent on world domination. It doesn't matter. What does… — Chuck Sambuchino Copy Share Image
You cannot take the mild approach to the weeds in your mental garden. You have got to hate weeds enough to kill… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Even the most irresistible flowering plant, one that I call a 'key' performer, is part of a whole cast; it has to… — Penelope Hobhouse Copy Share Image
So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
What do we look for as reward? Some little sounds, and scents, and scenes A small hand darting strawberry-ward A woman's aprons… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life -… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
No matter where you are you can grow something to eat. Shift your thinking and you'd be surprised at the places your… — Greg Peterson Copy Share Image
I think it's the freedom, the undisciplined energy that's within us all - exactly what you feel when you enter the wild… — John Matthews Copy Share Image
“In the garden everything was wonderfully clear and still. The birds were chirping so energetically that Sophie could hardly keep from laughing.… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
The first command given by God when Adam and Eve were pitched out of the Garden of Eden in the Book of… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
