Living Things. The garden can be as unlimited a resource as you want it to be. It's an escape from everything if… — Hazel Hawke Copy Share Image
“So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Christianity sees plants and flowers as created by God to show forth and share with humans the divine goodness, beauty and truth… — John Stokes Copy Share Image
A grower of chrysanthemums awaited a visit from the emperor, who was coming to enjoy his blossoms, of which there were hundreds… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
There is a land, where the roses are without thorns, where the flowers are not mixed with brambles. In that land, there… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Wrapping rubber bands around a watermelon is not journalism. It is entertainment. But the key to success in media has always been… — Henry Blodget Copy Share Image
“When everyone arrived at the formal garden, lunch had been laid out on the terrace by unseen hands. Bowls of strawberries and… — Ellen Herrick Copy Share Image
The writing I have in mind and sometimes indulge in myself is concerned, not with plants, mountains or birds as items of… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
“Kira closed her eyes, thought, and said them aloud. "Madder for red. Bedstraw for red too, just the roots. Tops of tansy… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“The rain had ripened all the country around and the roadside grass was luminous and green from the run-off and flowers were… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
If you go to Italy and you drive from the airport to the town, there isn't 30 square feet that isn't planted… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
To the fuki plant, dandelions, and their kind that lie for long patiently under the fallen snow, comes the season of breezy… — Kobayashi Issa Copy Share Image
“But gardening is none of that, really. Strip away the gadgets and the techniques, the books and the magazines and the soil… — Amy Stewart Copy Share Image
In Egypt, I loved the perfume of the lotus. A flower would bloom in the pool at dawn, filling the entire garden… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I believe that we, that this planet, hasn't seen its Golden Age. Everybody says its finished ... art's finished, rock and roll… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Most of the nations that have serious gardening cultures have, or had, empires. You can't have this luxury of pleasure without somebody… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Being thus prepared for us in all ways, and made beautiful, and good for food, and for building, and for instruments of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The Garden En robe de parade. - Samain Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“We come from seed,” he told his son, smiling. “We grow up, blossom, and produce fruit. Then the fruit dries and goes… — Diana Palmer Copy Share Image
Where was he, her Alexander, of once? Was he truly gone? The Alexander of the Summer Garden, of their first Lazarevo days,… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“When we’re in nature, we move toward what elicits our best qualities. When we need a boost of confidence, joy, courage, or… — Katie Hess Copy Share Image
Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“By creating flowers from plastic bags (which are made with substances derived from oil), he addresses the ecological concerns associated with the… — Gwen Blakley Kinsler Copy Share Image
“...no matter how rhapsodic one waxes about the process of wresting edible plants and tamed animals from the sprawling vagaries of nature,… — James E. McWilliams 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
“There are many paths leading to a garden and many experiences awaiting those who venture in. No matter what your motive—whether to… — Jane Shellenberger Copy Share Image
[V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode.... an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Let us suppose that we have laid on the table... [a] piece of glass... and let us homologize this glass to a… — Leon Croizat Copy Share Image
Set in the remote and harsh high desert landscape of Idaho, Outpost is an artist live/work studio and sculpture garden for making… — Tom Kundig Copy Share Image
“There is a part of blooming which I did not understand, you see. You can be a flower all your life but… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
The purpose of life for man is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth. Trees and… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
“every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. 30And to every beast of the earth and to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In his or her life, each person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant. Builders may take years… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“A garden path,' write the landscape architects Charles W. Moore, William J. Mitchell, and William Turnbull, 'can become the thread of a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“The sun which warms the plant can under other conditions also wither it. The rain which nourishes the flower can under other… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
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
There are many tired gardeners but I've seldom met old gardeners. I know many elderly gardeners but the majority are young at… — Allan Armitage Copy Share Image
“The garden shimmered with candlelight from dozens of sweetly scented beeswax tapers set around to illuminate the space. In the center stood… — Tracy Anne Warren Copy Share Image