“A woman who's given me a home-a purpose.And for the first time in my life,I-" "A purpose ?" Jennika squints, as she… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
The eighteenth-century view of the garden was that it should lead the observer to the enjoyment of the aesthetic sentiments of regularity… — Penelope Hobhouse Copy Share Image
“Mr. Grote shows me how he grows wild rice in the stream and collects the seeds. The rice is nutty and brown.… — Christina Baker Kline 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
“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
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
“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
Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children. Consider the silent influencewhich flowers… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A grower of chrysanthemums awaited a visit from the emperor, who was coming to enjoy his blossoms, of which there were hundreds… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
“From the sound of pattering raindrops I recaptured the scent of the lilacs at Combray; from the shifting of the sun's rays… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Plants are decisive to a fault. A stem produces a bud that flowers once and once only. It offers pollen that is… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie… — Amanda Donohoe Copy Share Image
“There aren’t a lot of hobbies you can eat. Like, let’s say you love to cook. That’s a bad example. Let’s say… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
“You designed the garden then?" "Oh no, 'twasn't meself at all. His lordship did all the work. Had drawings and lists of… — Tracy Anne Warren Copy Share Image
I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll… — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
“I had traveled far, had circled the planet and studied my Torah, and at the very end of my search I was… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
“What is this stuff, do you know?” he asked. “No, I don’t,” said Hazel. “I’ve never seen it before.” “There’s a lot… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“...Bud forth as the rose planted by the brooks of waters. Give ye a sweet odor as frankincense. Send forth flowers, as… — Douai-Rheims Bible Copy Share Image
“In the symbiotic community of the forest, not only trees but also shrubs and grasses—and possibly all plant species—exchange information this way.… — Peter Wohlleben Copy Share Image
There are many tired gardeners but I've seldom met old gardeners. I know many elderly gardeners but the majority are young at… — Allan Armitage Copy Share Image
Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face with any… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
“But this home over here: it needed paint but had flowers neatly planted all the way around it. That one over there… — Dan Baum Copy Share Image
Great projects, like great careers and relationships that last, are gardens. They are tended, they shift, they grow. They endure over time,… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Friendships fail some years, blight twists the leaves and the crop is bitter. Frost bites or sudden fire devours: but the root… — Charlotte Gray Copy Share Image
Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He even knew the reason why: because enough men had gone off to war saying the time for gardening was when the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What would you like for your own life, Kate, if you could choose?” “Anything?” “Of course anything.” “That’s really easy, Aunty Ivy.”… — Valentina Hepburn Copy Share Image
“The flakes stuck in my eyelashes. They fell on my sleeves. Huge. Flowers and stars. They fell onto each other, held their… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is Autumn, as you know, and things are beginning to die. It is so wonderful to be out in the crisp… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke. The plants imbibe the materialswhich they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
White rose in red rose-garden Is not so white; Snowdrops, that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“The garden shimmered with candlelight from dozens of sweetly scented beeswax tapers set around to illuminate the space. In the center stood… — Tracy Anne Warren Copy Share Image
“That night, I fell into a deep, travel-weary sleep, lulled by the familiar sound of the waterfall beyond the window. I dreamed… — Hazel Gaynor Copy Share Image
The progress of this famous plant has been something like the progress of truth; suspected at first, though very palatable to those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“BEAUTIFUL LILY PETALS Walking down our street towards the house I notice some beautiful white lily petals on the pavement in front… — Tim Bradford Copy Share Image
