“Many trees were pulled out of the ground with their roots crying for water.” The lake was all polluted with thick layers… — Magda M. Olchawska 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
What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I grow green beans in my garden. The one thing I know about harvesting them is that you need to train your… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“At first, he talked about the flowers in the garden behind his country house in Surrey. His voice still had its Midlands… — Frederick Weisel Copy Share Image
“When we dig in the soil and plant a seed, we enter into a cycle of restoration that produces wholeness in us.… — Jerusalem Jackson Greer Copy Share Image
“Growth is an unavoidable part of life. Whether we mean for it to happen or not, our bodies continually nourish and regenerate… — Scott Edmund Miller Copy Share Image
When an almond tree became covered with blossoms in the heart of winter, all the trees around it began to jeer. 'What… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Early in life, when I first saw waterlilies on the ripples of a lake, I didn't think they were flowers which grew… — Lucian Blaga 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
It was the month of May, the month when the foliage of herbs and trees is most freshly green, when buds ripened… — Thomas Malory Copy Share Image
“The first day of spring, the vernal equinox—the season of renewal when the earth sheds its winter cloak, flowers bloom, and the… — Galen Watson Copy Share Image
I have a strong antipathy to everything connected with gardens, gardening and gardeners. . . . Gardening seems to me a kind… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
“There was a strong but not unpleasant smell- moist earth, decomposing leaf matter, new flowers beginning to catch the day's sun- and… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“The Lily of the valley, breathing in the humble grass Answer'd the lovely maid and said: "I am a watry weed, And… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for… — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
“The garden has wrapped itself in autumn haze. An unusual autumn, lacking that thrill of vegetal warmth when the sap is still… — Emil Dorian Copy Share Image
A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far… — Russell Page Copy Share Image
marrows - alas! - are arriving in a steady stream at the back door. ... Oddly enough, the majority of people who… — Miss Read Copy Share Image
Plants were bound for good or ill to their places. They expressed not only beauty but also the thoughts of God's world,… — Carl Jung 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
“And I think of the night-blooming cereus, a plant that looks like a leathery weed most of the year. But for one… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“The plants in the garden - the aloes, the almond tree, the rose tree and the iris - were afraid of her.… — Hendrik Cramer Copy Share Image
It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em," said Captain Jim.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors. They wish to… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
In the summer there are twelve cottonwoods around the pool, which in the winter become an elevated thicket. There is also a… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out especially-a translation… — Douglas Houghton Campbell Copy Share Image
The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites;… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
“She walked indoors, and staring once more at her orchids, thought to herself: ‘Flowers have their spring-time, a time for fresh blossoms… — Cao Xueqin Copy Share Image
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Secrets are like plants. They can stay buried deep in the earth for a long time, but eventually they'll send up shoots… — Judy Reene Singer Copy Share Image
The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The indoor picnic had been laid out in an octagonal-shaped sunroom featuring an atrium set in the center of the stone floor.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Once a century, all of a certain kind of bamboo flower on the same day. Whether they are in Malaysia or in… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
“It's a beautiful morning, Sire," the guard said "Yes, it is." The Duke nodded, thinking: Perhaps this planet could grow on one.… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Love, which, in concert with Abstinence, established Faith, and which, along with Patience, builds up Chastity, is like the columns that sustain… — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and… — Joseph Paxton Copy Share Image
My heart is a garden tired with autumn, Heaped with bending asters and dahlias heavy and dark, In the hazy sunshine, the… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
