If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Do something that will last and be beautiful. It doesn't have to be a bridge-or a symphony or book or a business.… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
In the garden the door is always open into the "holy" - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I think doing something creative is the most important thing to me, and I think it's probably just good for the soul… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Fabulous" Jack said, reaching down and plucking a crimson flower. A small scream sounded from it as he severed the stem. He… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what that is. It doesn't matter… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
“And my difficulties were these: I found each plant, each new turn in the road, each new turn in the weather, from… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“The flat area immediately below was broken up into a formal pattern of beds containing oleander and more clipped clouds of box,… — Deborah Lawrenson Copy Share Image
As leaders we do not create growth. The best we can do is create an environment that is conducive to growth. It… — James Hunter Copy Share Image
A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of… — Anonymous 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
“In the Ondariva gardens the branches spread out like the tentacles of extraordinary animals, and the plants on the ground opened up… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The art of living demands that our interest in bringing forth flowers in our family life equal the interest we take in… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
“In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“In the small seeds of plants lie hidden both bulk and branches, bud and fruit. In a few principles lie hidden all… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
Natural history is a matter of observation; it is a harvest which you gather when and where you find it growing. Birds… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
Does the unmistakeable intent of Versailles to proclaim dominion over nature destroy its aesthetic appeal, as Schopenhauer thought? Does the greenness of… — David E. Cooper 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
Nature seemed to have adorned herself for our departure with a profusion of fringes and curls, mingled with the bright tints of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nothing can hide from me the conviction that an immortal soul needs for its sustenance something more than visiting, and gardening, and… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
“Our bonfire burns brightly, alighting our hot harvest. Scarce seeds of winter's heat, as its first dawn inflames. Sprouting into a plant… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
The copycats around a real talent are like the wild bushes overgrowing round a beautiful plant bearing scented flowers. Even if scrubs… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
“With this increased diversity at the base of the food chain, there are increased opportunities for insects and fungi and bacteria that… — Chris D. Thomas Copy Share Image
A flower is not a flower. It is made only of non-flower elements - sunshine, clouds, time, space, earth, minerals, gardeners, and… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I've been sleeping through my life Now I'm waking up And I want to stand in the sunshine I have never been… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
“love were a garden, dating would be the weed killer. Unfortunately, many times the worst weeds survive the initial application, often requiring… — Alaina Stanford Copy Share Image
This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“Joseph would reach out to me occasionally, the same way the desert blooms a flower every now and then. You get so… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“We can either fill our minds and chatter to ourselves about issues and people while we are gardening, or we can simply… — David Carlyle Copy Share Image
What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In sunshine, in prosperity, the flowers are very well; but how many wet days are there in life—November seasons of disaster, when… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“He began to explain to me that vegetation, and especially mature trees, are able to transmit harmony when one rests one’s nerve… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
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