“i reached for the last bouquet of flowers you gave me now wilting in their vase one by one i popped their… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Of course, the character of my garden is also determined by things beyond any human decision, mine or anyone else's. — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
I came into this existence as fresh as a flower and I abused myself; ripped myself out of the ground by my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in… — Katharine Sergeant Angell White Copy Share Image
We must plant trees, grow gardens instead of lawns, ride bicycles when we can and support responsible local businesses over big brands. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Open your heart to sympathy, but close it against despondency. The flower which opens to receive the dew shuts against the rain. — James H Aughey Copy Share Image
...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a… — David Fairchild Copy Share Image
The first gatherings of the garden in May of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby… — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
A seed has to get buried in the soil for its real form as a plant to emerge. Only through modesty and… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
“Let us have gardens, then, and other public places where we may see our friends, and parade our vanities, if you will,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“This soil is bad for certain kinds of flowers. Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear, and… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Final Disposition Others divided closets full of mother's things. From the earth, I took her poppies. I wanted those fandango folds of… — Jane Glazer Copy Share Image
Gardening can be a compelling cooperative activity. Your best harvest may be the pleasure you get from working with family and friends.… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Life is like an overgrown garden. You can spend your time cursing the weeds, or you can work to pull them out.… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life, beginning with a seed of trust, nurtured with laughter and tears, growing into… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
I dreamed you were standing in this dark place and you touched these dead flowers and they lit up like they were… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Just living is not enough, said the butterfly, one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am always more interested in people than plants. Nature doesn't make gardens, people make gardens. And the story of a garden… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
“The sun was directly overhead, bright against the flower’s exterior. Warm blueish-purple silhouettes pirouetted and danced along interior walls.” — James Qualls Copy Share Image
Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If you plant your own seeds in your garden you won't have to see what someone else is growing, because you will… — Tyrone Porter Copy Share Image
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry. — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
There are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
“Your soil and plants are friends that benefit from constant care and attention to the details I explain.” — Charles Dowding Copy Share Image
Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants… — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
Teach him to live unto God and unto thee; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“my garden in the sun and in the rain and in the day and in the night pain is a flower pain… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point… — H Fred Ale Copy Share Image
Just Enough Soil for legs Axe for hands Flower for eyes Bird for ears Mushrooms for nose Smile for mouth Songs for… — Nanao Sakaki Copy Share Image
Plants are not like us, and the more you study plants, the more different and deep ways you see that they are… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
“Cannot a rugged and misty landscape be adored by the eyes as much as a sunlit garden? Perhaps it is adored even… — Galen Beckett Copy Share Image
“Who says you're alone? There is the sky to hug you, the trees to whisper to you, the ground to hold you,… — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants. Not only do plants nourish us… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn’t clouded… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
