“Here’s another big symbol,” she says, still crouched and looking up at me. “These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours.… — Chuck Palaniuk 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
“Flowers remind me of the beauty and brevity of life. They teach patience as you await some to bloom, enhancing their beauty.… — Sanjo Jendayi Copy Share Image
My special cause, the one that alerts my interest and quickens the pace of my life, is to preserve the wildflowers and… — Lady Bird Johnson Copy Share Image
the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
I buy most of my plants from nurseries outside London these days, but there is a man who mysteriously appears each February… — Diana Quick Copy Share Image
People who spend a great deal of time in their gardens attest to the natural mindfulness that gardening requires. What could be… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
“What would you like for your own life, Kate, if you could choose?” “Anything?” “Of course anything.” “That’s really easy, Aunty Ivy.”… — Valentina Hepburn Copy Share Image
“The flakes stuck in my eyelashes. They fell on my sleeves. Huge. Flowers and stars. They fell onto each other, held their… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
He even knew the reason why: because enough men had gone off to war saying the time for gardening was when the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But this home over here: it needed paint but had flowers neatly planted all the way around it. That one over there… — Dan Baum Copy Share Image
Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face with any… — Joseph Wood Krutch 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
Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Friendships fail some years, blight twists the leaves and the crop is bitter. Frost bites or sudden fire devours: but the root… — Charlotte Gray Copy Share Image
Great projects, like great careers and relationships that last, are gardens. They are tended, they shift, they grow. They endure over time,… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“What is this stuff, do you know?” he asked. “No, I don’t,” said Hazel. “I’ve never seen it before.” “There’s a lot… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“I had traveled far, had circled the planet and studied my Torah, and at the very end of my search I was… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
“In the symbiotic community of the forest, not only trees but also shrubs and grasses—and possibly all plant species—exchange information this way.… — Peter Wohlleben Copy Share Image
“...Bud forth as the rose planted by the brooks of waters. Give ye a sweet odor as frankincense. Send forth flowers, as… — Douai-Rheims Bible Copy Share Image
“There aren’t a lot of hobbies you can eat. Like, let’s say you love to cook. That’s a bad example. Let’s say… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll… — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
“You designed the garden then?" "Oh no, 'twasn't meself at all. His lordship did all the work. Had drawings and lists of… — Tracy Anne Warren Copy Share Image
I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie… — Amanda Donohoe Copy Share Image
“Behind her the sun was still shining, so that every grove and every single tree between her and the storm blazed ardent… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Briers do not become flowers when there is no danger present. While the forest has flowering plants, it also has trees and… — Andrew St. Cyr Copy Share Image
All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“What more could he need, this old man whose little leisure was divided between day-time gardening and night-time contemplation? Was not that… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The Sunlight on the Garden The sunlight on the garden Hardens and grows cold, We cannot cage the minute Within its nets… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
The progress of this famous plant has been something like the progress of truth; suspected at first, though very palatable to those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“BEAUTIFUL LILY PETALS Walking down our street towards the house I notice some beautiful white lily petals on the pavement in front… — Tim Bradford Copy Share Image
“That night, I fell into a deep, travel-weary sleep, lulled by the familiar sound of the waterfall beyond the window. I dreamed… — Hazel Gaynor 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
White rose in red rose-garden Is not so white; Snowdrops, that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke. The plants imbibe the materialswhich they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A long time ago, there were lovers that lived on the opposite ends of a river. They promised to meet when the… — John the Apostle Copy Share Image
“Working with some real dirt seemed fitting for a woman whose hands felt like they would remain forever filthy. She decided to… — Ken Goldman --From SINKHOLE Copy Share Image
This is a nice metaphor, too, about mothers and daughters - that when it came time for me to make my own,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
