“You told me once," I say to Ky, holding up the bud for him to see and then pressing it into his… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
I aimed at a beautifUl flOwer in the branch of a tall tree,.,,... But I lost my balance and cOnsequently fell in… — Ritu Ghatourey 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
“Agatha surveys the garden, its rows of crinkled spring cabbages and beanstalks entwining bowers of hawthorn and hazel. The rosemary is dotted… — Sarah Bower Copy Share Image
If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is,… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will blow… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
Our role as gardeners is to choose, plant and tend the best seeds within the garden of our consciousness. Learning to look… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“Some changes occur suddenly like a brilliant flash of lightning striking across a dark sky. These changes are stunning, exciting but can… — Suzi Davis Copy Share Image
“[W]hat seems to be happening at the moment is never the full story is really going on. [...] [F]or the honey bee,… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of jasmine. "In return for the odor of my jasmine,… — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
“My son Rafi is enchanted with cyberspace. But we are not disembodied mind or spirit, we are our bodies - cruising the… — Vigen Guroian Copy Share Image
When a poet mentions the spring, we know that the zephyrs are about to whisper, that the groves are to recover their… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. ... Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows, passion-flowers cross-pollinate… — Alan Coren Copy Share Image
Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“I was reminded ... the way that wood crumbles into dissolution.’ ‘The release of energy. Perhaps a better way of seeing it.’… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Better known as the Secret of the Golden Flower, this is a famous neidan text that the Western world came to know… — Monica Esposito Copy Share Image
The growth of all the plants of the garden from seeds and roots keep us mindful, in accordance with of the Parable… — John Stokes Copy Share Image
How beautiful, buoyant, and glad is morning! The first sunshine on the leaves: the first wind, laden with the first breath of… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“Only a fool will deny that an abundance of flowers can quicken a woman's blood, and that continuing sun can burn years… — Joe Ashby Porter Copy Share Image
The groves and thickets of smaller trees are full of blooming evergreen vines. These vines are not arranged in separate groups, or… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Around her the trees and wild flowers, with that oddly courteous air of natural things suddenly interrupted in their pressing occupations of… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
Now let us gather into one bouquet, from the King's garden, these seven fragrant flowers: Jesus the Son of God; Jesus our… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the… — Ken Wilber 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
“The Pain of Becoming For the flower, it is fully open at each step of its blossoming. We do ourselves a great… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
There once was a child, and he strolled about a good deal, and thought of a number of things. He had a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“ENTER THIS DESERTED HOUSE But please walk softly as you do. Frogs dwell here and crickets too. Ain't no ceiling, only blue… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
There's also a growing trend toward having gardens in schools to literally show kids where food comes from by having them grow… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
I grow savager and savager every day, as if fed on raw meat, and my tameness is only the repose of untamableness.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Crouchers move through a garden at a stoop: naming, gasping, horraying, admiring or coveting plants; Gapers saunter, smiling or sighing at what… — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
Suddenly creativity is the popular goal. Ironically, a quality dissonant with our conventional education process is greatly in demand in adults -… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
To embody a new paradigm of civilization - to learn to think like a planet in order to heal and nurture a… — David Spangler Copy Share Image
You have to temper the iron. Every hardship is an opportunity that you are given, an opportunity to grow. To grow is… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
... the most fiendish plant I know of, the sort of thing Beelzebub might pluck to make a bouquet for his mother-in-law… — Edward Augustus Bowles Copy Share Image
In the assemblies of the enlightened ones there have been many cases of mastering the Way bringing forth the heart of plants… — Dogen Copy Share Image
This sounds cheesy but when I would get in discussions with people about religion or spirituality, a lot of people would say,… — Natalie Maines Copy Share Image
For more than thirty years, Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd have been gardening with extraordinary, indeed legendary, results. Part memoir, part omnium-gatherum… — Philip Gambone Copy Share Image