“Look up at the sky. Ask yourself, 'Has the sheep eaten the flower or not?' And you'll see how everything changes... And… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“In life, a person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant. The builders might take years over their… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
For thee, sweet month; the groves green liveries wear. If not the first, the fairest of the year; For thee the Graces… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension,… — Guy Laliberte Copy Share Image
“I forgot that with the green, the plushness, and shiny plant life that pushed up and surrounded us, with the nourishment it… — Lauren Nicolle Taylor Copy Share Image
Alan Chadwick's garden is a 'garden of the mind' as much as it is of the soil, and like all genuinely inspired… — Page Smith Copy Share Image
“The hanging gate, of something like trelliswork, was propped on a pole, and he could see that the house was tiny and… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
“The most she knew about gardens was the Bakers’ own backyard, which contained one large mulberry tree and a rosebush, plus the… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
My grandmother was this amazing woman in the Dominican Republic who used to read tea leaves and palms. She would cure people… — Selenis Leyva Copy Share Image
“I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all… — Joseph Dalton Hooker 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
“She wandered out for a walk. It was the kind of day that pretends spring has come, even though it hasn't. The… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
“On Wednesday, for variety, he accosted Andrew as Andrew went out to check the state of the garden walls and presented a… — Diana Wynne Jones 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
“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
Man is the summit, the crown of nature's development, and must comprehend everything that has preceded him, even as the fruit includes… — Lorenz Oken Copy Share Image
John Bunyan, while he had a surpassing genius, would not condescend to cull his language from the garden of flowers; but he… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“There was something about the garden that reminded her of Nell's backyard in Brisbane. Not the plants so much as the mood.… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“The Flowers All the names I know from nurse: Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse, Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock, And the Lady Hollyhock. Fairy… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Late April and you are three; today We dug your garden in the yard. To curb the damage of your play, Strange… — W. D. Snodgrass Copy Share Image
“I own a flower myself,” he (The Little Prince) continued, “which I water every day. I own three volcanoes, which I rake… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
The gardens I love best are those that are still affectionately tended by the people who own them and who made them… — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
“popcorn, with Jordan fast on her heels. They sprinted into the dense growth of the overburdened flower beds and began running zigzag… — Tracy Brogan Copy Share Image
A drop of water has the tastes of the water of the seven seas: there is no need to experience all the… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
“Soon some of the plants were as big as fruit trees. There were fans of long emerald-green leaves, flowers resembling peacock tails… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
“Without sight to get in the way of things, the whole world was suddenly alive with sound: the lapping of water as… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“As we think about the next 50 years, I remember a story President Kennedy told a week before he was killed. The… — Newton N. Minnow Copy Share Image
By nature, we are a plant-based intelligence - not just our exhale, which plants inhale, but they are my food chain. They… — Horst Rechelbacher Copy Share Image
“A nuclear reactor is a proposed "solution" to "the energy problem." But like all big-technological "solutions," this one "solves" a single problem… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal...Its tenacious fibers… — John James Ingalls Copy Share Image
Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the… — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
“For this, let gardens grow, where beelines end, sighing in roses, saffron blooms, buddleia; where bees pray on their knees, sing, praise… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“If you wish to make anything grow, you must understand it, and understand it in a very real sense. 'Green fingers' are… — Russell Page Copy Share Image
“What is a flower? A giant sexual organ in its Sunday best. The truth has been known for a long time, yet,… — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
The more contemplative gardener, seeing the garden as a whole, the design of it, and its nature as a still place of… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
Morning is the best of all times in the garden. The sun is not yet hot. Sweet vapors rise from the earth.… — William Longgood Copy Share Image
Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
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