“When you love a flower", he said, as if wishing to explain his altered experience, "and suddenly she is gone, everything vanishes… — Vaddey Ratner Copy Share Image
Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One's own flowers and some of one's own vegetables make acceptable, free, self-congratulatory gifts when visiting friends, though giving zucchini - or… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
“The Lily of the valley, breathing in the humble grass Answer'd the lovely maid and said: "I am a watry weed, And… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Remember that the animals and plants have no M.P. they can write to; they can't perform sit-down strikes or, indeed, strikes of… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
You know what I hate? I hate people who give me plants. The whole giving someone plants - it's like giving someone… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments… — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
“Tori is the woman in your neighborhood who stops by your garden, pauses, and gets you going for three hours on the… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
“A vast field opened like a blossoming tulip, flowers blooming in the rippling airs of spring. High and frothy trees hugged air… — Paul Andreas Wunderlich Copy Share Image
The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of… — Robert Fortune Copy Share Image
“Shamus shrugged. “It’s all about energy exchange. It could always go the other way, me feeding a plant instead of drawing the… — Devon Monk Copy Share Image
“A world, a glimmer or a flower? Glimmering and trembling, trembling and unfolding, a breaking light, an opening flower, it spread in… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“I am alone. They have gone into the house for breakfast, and I am left standing by the wall among the flowers.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Large or small, [the garden] should be orderly and rich. It should be well fenced from the outside world. It should by… — William Morris Copy Share Image
“If someone drowned at sea a couple of hundred years ago they’d either start to decompose immediately or they’d get eaten by… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
“The heat of the summer transformed the green grass into long brown straw, only the weeds were green. Claire didn't mind, the… — Aleatha Romig Copy Share Image
A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one’s personal history and that of one’s friends, interwoven with one’s tastes, preferences… — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
“Buy flowers — or if you are poor, steal one from someone’s garden; the world owes you that much at least: a… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“Some changes occur suddenly like a brilliant flash of lightning striking across a dark sky. These changes are stunning, exciting but can… — Suzi Davis Copy Share Image
St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden when someone asked what he would do if he were suddenly to learn that… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Gardening is about communication, relationships, routines and life-enrichment. Gardens are places that connect us to the seasons and the life cycle. They're… — Costa Georgiadis Copy Share Image
“No,' she whispered over those fields. 'No, you can't have this part of me.' If they tried to take Sam, she'd do… — Anna-Marie McLemore Copy Share Image
In a field I am the absence of field.That is always the case. Wherever I am, I am what is missing. When… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“Nature in her creative dreaming, dreamt the same thing both here and there, and if one spoke of imitation, then certainly it… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
There is a small seed waiting to be free. Burrowed in the ground, fed and watered. It grows slowly year after year.… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
A child is a flower in the garden of life. Some grow taller, some are different colours and some will change how… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
I became passionate about nature filmmaking when I graduated from UCLA, and one of the things I always wanted to do was… — Louie Schwartzberg Copy Share Image
When I'm outside gardening, it can be so inspiring. I think of words and melodies. It's peaceful. Every singer-songwriter should find something… — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
The Bourne Underneath the growing grass, Underneath the living flowers, Deeper than the sound of showers: There we shall not count the… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image