Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees,… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“The aim of forest garden design is to make the relationships as co-operative as possible, while acknowledging that very few plants will… — Patrick Whitefield Copy Share Image
A grateful loving heart carries with it, under every parallel of latitude, the warmth and light of the tropics. It plants its… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
“It's been over a year since they've visited their son's market. As they walk through the parking lot they take in a… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they’re killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? 'Sweetheart,… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
I've always admired gardens. My father was a great nature lover and would always take me for walks. We lived not too… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“On the basis of decades of experiments, plants are starting to be regarded as beings capable of calculation and choice, learning and… — Stefano Mancuso Copy Share Image
“An avocado of hope ripens in one corner, while a pomegranate of faith bursts open in another. Vivid tulips unfurl their petals… — Bhuwan Thapaliyahapaliya Copy Share Image
“If you consider your mind like a garden,' he began earnestly, 'a garden needs to be tended regularly to prevent weeds from… — Tami Egonu Copy Share Image
“We are vastly more powerful than we think we are. With a little support from flowers, we can recognize how deeply we… — Katie Hess Copy Share Image
But in the garden the sun still shone. The innumerable bees hummed. The scent of thyme hung on the air. But only… — Edward Eager Copy Share Image
Plant flowers in others' gardens and your life becomes a bouquet! Submitted by Lisa Letto, Coordinator, Nutrition Resource and Volunteer Centre, College… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Be a Gardener. Dig a ditch. Toil and sweat. And turn the earth upside down. And seek the deepness. And water plants… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
Nature has put itself the problem how to catch in flight light streaming to the earth and to store the most elusive… — Robert Mayer Copy Share Image
Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not; but… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
“In fact, the only things in the flat Crowley devoted any personal attention to were the houseplants. They were huge, and green,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's outlook on… — Roberto Burle Marx Copy Share Image
“My first vegetable garden was in a hard-packed dirt driveway in Boulder, Colorado. I was living in a basement apartment there, having… — Jane Shellenberger Copy Share Image
“I swear since seeing your face, the whole world is fraud and fantasy The garden is bewildered as to what is leaf… — Jallaludin Rumi Copy Share Image
“An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one’s mind. Even ten square miles of wheat gladdens the hearts… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Today, supremely, it behooves us to remember that a nation shall be saved by the power that sleeps in its own bosom;… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“Aunt Dove stepped behind her and looked at her reflection in the cheval glass. “You haven’t been to India, pet, but in… — Deanna Raybourn Copy Share Image
I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one badass flower, captured in… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
When I am alone the flowers are really seen; I can pay attention to them. They are felt as presences. Without them… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Why a flower had become that, I had no idea. Something about flowers always made me think about the reproductive system.The scent… — Amalie Silver Copy Share Image
“When it first shoots up out of the earth, we don’t condemn it as immature and underdeveloped, nor do we criticize the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“I am a lover, and I deal in love. Sow flowers, So your surroundings become a garden. Don't sow thorns; for they… — Rahman Baba Copy Share Image
“Years ago, when she'd studied the constructions of stem, blade, stamen, ovule, she loved the infinite possibilities of the plant kingdom- but… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing 'Oh how wonderful' and sitting in the shade, While… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
When you're doing exactly what you want to do, it's not tiring. You've been planting these seeds, and finally, you have a… — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
We have the promises of God as thick as daisies in summer meadows, that death, which men most fear, shall be to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
As for vegetables, I do not consider a plot of ground devoted to them worthy of the honorable name of garden. Vegetables… — Harrison Gray Otis Dwight Copy Share Image
In some ways, I saw the garden as a metaphor for certain aspects of my life. A leader must also tend his… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
so my grandmother was not without humanity. and if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in the garden, they were cocktail… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery,… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“Here is the soundless cypress on the lawn: It listens, listens. Taller trees beyond Listen. The moon at the unruffled pond Stares.… — Harold Monro Copy Share Image
Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind.… — Octavio Paz 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
