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
“…"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
“will plant!” True to his word, on Friday, when she arrived, there were dozens of plants waiting by the garden plot that… — Sarah Price Copy Share Image
For optimal health, we need body and spirit, exercise (ming) and meditation, awareness of the inner world and the outer. In other… — Ken Cohen Copy Share Image
Natural objects themselves, even when they make no claim to beauty, excite the feelings, and occupy the imagination. Nature pleases, attracts, delights,… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
“Let not the curse of Witches Destroy a land of natural riches. Plants, preserve life in thy roots, Seeds sleep in earth,… — Amber Argyle Copy Share Image
The ideal garden is one in which a collection of trees, shrubs and plants have been procured and allotted to the best… — Penelope Hobhouse Copy Share Image
“My eyes blinked like a camera shutter clicking through the frames of my life, except the images were mismatched and haphazard: a… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
What a difference that extra 120 ppm has made for plants, and for animals and humans that depend on them. The more… — Paul Driessen Copy Share Image
My children threw me a life line: "Return to your roots - food - and rewrite your first book, Diet for a… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Fall is not the end of the gardening year; it is the start of next year's growing season. The mulch you lay… — Thalassa Cruso 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
“Praise be to God I’m not good, And have the natural egotism of flowers And rivers following their bed Preoccupied without knowing… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
Right-thinking people are not supposed to discuss any meteorological or geophysical event - a hurricane, a wildfire, a heat wave, a drought,… — Joel Achenbach Copy Share Image
Children, don't waste a single second. Serve others, above all the poor, expecting nothing in return. Just as the person who offers… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“... from the classically executed lifelike bouquets, tempting you to reach for the petals that fell on a three-dimensional tablecloth, to a… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
A freak but moist flower tangles my lungs, knits into my heart, crawls up my throat and sucks like octopi on my… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“When I gardened at home, I often considered how the growth of plants resembles the gradual growth of the spirit. And seeing… — Janet Benton Copy Share Image
Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“they start in the ice garden, through the twins grow impatient with leisurely pace that celia prefers to take around the frozen… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Spring has committed suicide it seems Days are dark Nights are cold here Who planted bombs? In these garden and parks They… — Nick Kler Copy Share Image
“God Does Not Compare The Flowers In His Garden A rose is beautiful, but so is an iris. Both are flowers and… — Cheryl Zelenka Copy Share Image
“Standing here, as immune to the cold as a marble statue, gazing towards Charlotte Street, towards a foreshortened jumble of façades, scaffolding… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
One of the things we say... is, 'Do what you know helps you.' And so for me, that might be painting. For… — Karen Pence Copy Share Image
“Umm. Wow. Did it grow? Because it looks bigger." "Kissin' your red-hot love flower made this stem grow big and hard just… — Lorelei James Copy Share Image
Georgian England, to see those wonderful houses being built. And the clothes were interesting too, although I wouldn't want to wear a… — Alan Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
I look back with gladness to the day when I found the path to the land of heart's desire, and thank Fate… — Marion Dudley Cran Copy Share Image
“Raindrops fall from clouds of gray. The fragile flowers grow. Teardrops seem all I can say. They speak of endless woe. Your… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Gardens take many years to make. One cannot just plant stuff and presto—there is a garden. No, gardens have energy. Like houses,… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
