Everyone knows that weeds eat out the life of the garden and of the productive fields. It's like that in the building… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker.… — Barbara Palvin Copy Share Image
I fished a little while ago with a man, not in his first youth, who had wasted the flower of his life… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant… — Roberto Burle Marx Copy Share Image
... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
I've lived in small rooms, flats, growing plants in pots on window sills. I'd have liked to have had a full-fledged garden… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
“A small meadow of dill and lemon thyme, tarragon and lemon verbena, set amidst Attar of Roses and Prince of Orange pelargoniums.… — Nigel Slater Copy Share Image
Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“Summer is a period of luxurious growth. To be in harmony with the atmosphere of summer, awaken early in the morning and… — Paul Pitchford Copy Share Image
“Let us take care of our Garden of Eden with the fragrance of its flowers and the oxygen of its sheltering trees… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“I like to write. I like to choose the right word, I like to write the right sentence. It's just like gardening… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The English may love gardening and fishing, but they have never struck me as being close to nature. Their way of expression… — Denholm Elliott Copy Share Image
Geric," she called. He turned back around. "What kind of flowers were they?" "I don't rightly know," he said. He made faltering… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“I stopped in front of a florist's window. Behind me, the screeching and throbbing boulevard vanished. Gone, too, were the voices of… — Emil Dorian Copy Share Image
What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Just as a gardener must tend his or her plot, keeping out the weeds, you must tend the garden of your mind,… — Randy Gage Copy Share Image
“Don't you know This is precisely what I seek, mad myself To envelope every last drupe and pearl shaped ovule, Every nip… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“Miriam - I'll give you any flowers you want!' Rhapsodising over the thousand scents of her body, I exclaimed: 'I'll grow orchids… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“...[T]he right way is to give one's attention first to the highest good of the young, just as you expect a good… — Plato Copy Share Image
“…"The mind I love must have wild places: a tangled orchard where damsons drop in heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, a… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
“In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens --… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with insects, particularly insect flight. I think the evolution of insect flight is perhaps one of the most important events… — Michael Dickinson Copy Share Image
I see a flower. It gives me a sensation of the beautiful. I wish to paint it. And as soon as I… — Georges Vantongerloo Copy Share Image
Another thing much too commonly seen, is an aberration of the human mind which otherwise I should have been ashamed to warn… — William Morris Copy Share Image
All flesh is grass. and all its glory fades Like the fair flower dishevell'd in the wind; Riches have wings, and grandeur… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“… each body on this Earth is a flower, and the mind it holds is a flower that will flourish and fade;… — Marc Hamer Copy Share Image
“The torchlit garden was redolent with the colors and scents of autumn... gold and copper foliage, thick borders of roses and dahlias,… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
A garden is to be enjoyed, and should satisfy the mind and not only the eye of the beholder. Sounds such as… — Penelope Hobhouse Copy Share Image
“For centuries the Mountrachets had been keen horticulturists. Forebear after forebear had traveled far and wide, spanning the globe in search of… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“When I was ten, my mother got me a subscription to a website called Seeds Anonymous,” I said. “Every month I would… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
“The plants and animals all around us were waking from a long sleep, and our yard was slowly transformed into a carpet… — Arlene Stafford-Wilson Copy Share Image
Nature promotes mutualism. The flower nourishes the bee. The river waters quench the thirst of all living beings. And trees provide a… — Ram Nath Kovind Copy Share Image
We are extremely uncomfortable with the spiritual aspects of gardening, and yet most people feel it in some form or other, even… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
“He criss-crossed the kitchen-garden beyond the asparagus beds: fruit trees and strawberry beds and bean poles and a chicken-wire enclosure where raspberry… — Philippa Pearce Copy Share Image
Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in,… — Josh Billings 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
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