The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
O ye whose years unfolding fair Are fresh with youth, and free from care, Should vice and indolence desire The garden of… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
“You're not a gardener, are you? So perhaps you don't know that once a garden is established, much of good gardening is… — Rosalie Parker Copy Share Image
“The day is early with birds beginning and the wren in a cloud piping like the child in the poem, drop thy… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
My neighbor Alice Pierce is fond of singing folk music to her garden plants. Thinks it makes them grow or something. The… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
“Beneath and around the dead and ruined chaparral rise the most amazingly beautiful flowers. Tulips and wind poppies and flame poppies, whispering… — Frances Wood Copy Share Image
“They say you only really appreciate a garden once you reach a certain age, and I suppose there is a truth in… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
Young men, you who have any piety at all, what sort is it? Is it a hot-house plant, which must be framed… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
“Here we are," he said, pointing down an unshoveled path. "The Gardens." Cath tried to look appreciative. You wouldn't know there was… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“They shouldered their packs and took up their sticks, and walked round the corner to the west side of Bag End. 'Good-bye!'… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
Let every Christian be a gardener so that he and she and the whole of creation, which groans in expectation of the… — Vigen Guroian Copy Share Image
People in Detroit aren't just urban gardening. They're starting a new mode of education. They're trying to give children the education to… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
“Yet each flower, each twig, each pebble, shines as though illuminated from within, as once before, on her first day in the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the… — Wendell Berry 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
“Change blows through the branches of our existence. It fortifies the roots on which we stand, infuses crimson experience with autumn hues,… — B.G. Bowers Copy Share Image
“Patience drifted in the garden, her dress draping softly off one shoulder and her hair falling across her back like blood in… — Ellen Herrick Copy Share Image
“I was a vegetarian of sorts," he replied, "but the difference between animal and vegetable isn't as clearly defined on my home… — Lucy Snyder Copy Share Image
With the garden I planted for the Reina Sofia, each plant related to different celebrations along the calendar - Christmas with evergreen… — Pierre Huyghe Copy Share Image
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“The mind is the only level at which any lasting change can occur—it is the soil in which we plant our hopes… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; There with fantastic garlands did… — William Shakespeare 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 sun was setting behind a line of trees; it cast a great bird's wing halfway across the field when she finally… — Deborah Lawrenson Copy Share Image
“The garden is incredible. It's really overgrown, but underneath the brambles all kinds of plants have survived. There are paths, garden seats,… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Agriculture probably required a far greater discipline than did any form of food collecting. Seeds had to be planted at certain seasons,… — Charles Heiser Copy Share Image
I saw a delicate flower had grown up two feet high between the horses' feet and the wheel-track. Which Dakin's and Maynard's… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is a theology to gardening that few of us consider, but to understand this theology means relinquishing much control - our… — Christopher McDowell Copy Share Image
“animal and plant are the descending fifth and third of man, the inorganic kingdom being the lower octave. The full truth of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
For the flowers are great blessings. For the Lord made a Nosegay in the meadow with his disciples and preached upon the… — Christopher Smart Copy Share Image
“She knelt beside him. “Now, do you see this?” She plucked a weed from the dirt. “It and everything like it are… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
“She knelt on the walkway, and the plants bunched around her, each of them calling out their name: the philodendron was Dendy… — Sarah Beth Durst 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
Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he knelt, he prayed:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One of the many reasons why gardens are increasingly precious to us in this day and age is that they help us… — Beverley Nichols 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
Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
April Rain It is not raining rain to me, It's raining daffodils; In every dimpled drop I see Wild flowers on the… — Robert Loveman Copy Share Image
Most people, early in November, take last looks at their gardens, are are then prepared to ignore them until the spring. I… — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
