The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Walking in the mountain with bare foot, Teasing the flowers with heavy soot, Touching the grasses, climbing the horses, swinging the girls… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“Nancy taught two hens to help her sort flowers to make leis. She set them down by a basket of three colors… — Karen Pryor Copy Share Image
I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on… — A. L. Rowse Copy Share Image
Buying flowers is not just a way to bring home beauty. It's an expression of confidence that better days are coming. It's… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
The thing about a plant is, let's say it will have 50 or 100 little points of bright red. If you look… — Robert Irwin Copy Share Image
“If we choose to be distracted by the scores of things around us we may find ourselves either backsliding in our walks,… — Adam Houge Copy Share Image
“The two plants had a gentleman's agreement going, like the railroad companies and the real-estate speculators in the old days, whereby they… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
If you're a gardener, or creating a garden you're clearly looking to the future. You have a sense of your own future… — Amanda Marshall Copy Share Image
“And Ásta Sóllilja, it was she who swept on wings of poetry into those spheres which she had sensed as if in… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“GARDENS OR FIELDS? Craig Blomberg points out that in Matthew’s parable of the mustard seed, the sower sows his seed in a… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Finally we reach the end of the camp where the kitchens stood. A round concrete ring rises out of the earth, maybe… — Matthew A. Rozell Copy Share Image
June marked the end of spring on California's central coast and the beginning of five months of dormancy that often erupted in… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
When you plant seeds in the garden, you don’t dig them up every day to see if they have sprouted yet. You… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You might think a seed was finished and done with when it… — Elizabeth Groudge Copy Share Image
“She knelt beside him. “Now, do you see this?” She plucked a weed from the dirt. “It and everything like it are… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
“The fundamental metaphor of National Socialism as it related to the world around it was the garden, not the wild forest. One… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants… — Thomas Carper Copy Share Image
In friendship's fragrant garden, There are flowers of every hue. Each with its own fair beauty And its gift of joy for… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“Constantine, eight years old, was working in his father's garden and thinking about his own garden, a square of powdered granite he… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“A plant needs to do more than stretch its leaves toward the sun. It also needs to send down roots deep into… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
It’s easy to plant a seed and sprinkle it with water, but once the sun scorches the ground, and the earth soaks… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
“The most important surviving relics of the primitive plants are mosses and ferns, which give us a clue to how ancient plants… — Richard M. Ketchum Copy Share Image
Now, whereas we do not find it hard to accept the beauty of a flower for itself alone, in present-day, mechanical-industrial civilization,… — Paul Outerbridge Copy Share Image
A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward a bed… — Stephen M. Irwin 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
“The average lawn is an interesting beast: people plant it, then douse it with artificial fertilizers and dangerous pesticides to make it… — Michael Braungart Copy Share Image
“All at once the hard, cold earth seemed to explode. The brown surface of the world dissolved and in its place was… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
In winter, play with the snow; in summer, play with the Sun! Do not wait for something to come; everything is already… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“My son Rafi is enchanted with cyberspace. But we are not disembodied mind or spirit, we are our bodies - cruising the… — Vigen Guroian Copy Share Image
No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it,… — J. Carter Brown Copy Share Image
Gardeners may create order briefly out of chaos, but nature always gets the last word, and what it says is usually untidy… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I have raised beds, perennial beds, cut flower beds. I have an island on a pond that's just covered in peonies. I… — Steve Zahn Copy Share Image
May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day. May songbirds serenade you every step along the way. May a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“MAN'S mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or… — James Allen Copy Share Image
I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small… — E. Nesbit Copy Share Image
My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
People were so naive about plants, Ellie thought. They just chose plants for appearance, as they would choose a picture for the… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
