“I now call trees "tree beings," flowers and shrubs "plant beings," and lakes and rivers "water beings." They are as alive as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Reading books about gardens is a potent pastime; books nourish a gardener's mind in the same way as manure nourishes plants.” — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
All things are symbols: the external shows Of Nature have their image in the mind , As flowers and fruits and falling… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've never really understood the criticism that climbing is inherently selfish, since it could equally be argued about virtually any other hobby… — Alex Honnold Copy Share Image
Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning — Charles Rennie Mackintosh Copy Share Image
In Eastern lands they talk in flowers, And they tell in a garland their loves and cares; Each blossom that blooms in… — James Gates Percival Copy Share Image
The term biodynamics - push it aside, it is verbosity. It doesn't matter a bit. One has to use words to make… — Alan Chadwick Copy Share Image
Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
“Don’t ask for everything on your platter,” she said. “Be satisfied with a wrinkled pea, for there’s another world we’re all going… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“In the kitchen, she made passionflower tea, turning the jar of loose leaves in her hand while a teaspoon's worth steeped in… — Barbara Delinsky Copy Share Image
Sometimes a game comes at just the right moment in your life. 'Flower' is beautiful, serene, and a bit of sunshine in… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
The seeds you plant in the hearts and minds of others will be what you receive in return - 100-fold. Only sow… — Mary Kay Ash Copy Share Image
Everything is born from change. ...there is nothing nature loves more that to alter what exists and make new things like it.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Nature grinds all of us. Keep count of the ounce of pleasure you get. In the long run, nature did her work… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind, Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring,… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the… — Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon Copy Share Image
“As the flowers are all made sweeter by the sunshine and the dew, So this old world is made brighter by the… — Bonnie Parker Copy Share Image
The park grass looked greener, the park benches looked better and the flowers were trying harder. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower ; the earth is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You know the way that children play make-believe in the garden? I did that and I thought, 'This will do for life.… — Harry Treadaway Copy Share Image
I grew up at my grandmother's house and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding,… — Elton John Copy Share Image
Humbly serving all with their beauty, flowers say more to us about God than anything else. Each one brings a message that… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
In gardens it's not just plants and insects and microbes that grow. People grow too, and the best bit is that they… — Costa Georgiadis Copy Share Image
Every garden scheme should have a backbone, a central idea beautifully phrased. Every wall, path, stone and flower should have its relationship… — Edwin Lutyens Copy Share Image
Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
“Someone once said writing and gardening are similar pursuits. Tell you what, I'd have one fucked up garden if that were the… — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there. I will touch a hundred flowers… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“There is in the garden a plant which one ought to leave dry, although most people water it. It is the weed… — Cosimo de' Medici Copy Share Image
“He felt it deep, like a stone too big to heft out of the garden. He just had to how around it… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
Genius is a native to the soil where it grows - is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun; and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“History doesn't remember gardens. … You forgot the wise administrators, those who kept the peace, those who brought prosperity. You needn’t feel… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
“Watch batteries gleam in the center of dark flowers. Henna painted with conductive ink, waiting to be turned on.” — Alex Livingston Copy Share Image
“He made two or three peculiar observations; as when shewn the botanical garden, 'Is not EVERY garden a botanical garden?” — James Boswell Copy Share Image
“Eden is within you; it is your life's garden. It is from this internal garden that you experience your external life. If… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
