I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
If I had a flower for every time you made me smile and laugh Id have a garden to walk in forever. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something wrong, stop… — Dorothy Gilman Copy Share Image
Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that… — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower! — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
“It’s why we like real flowers that wilt, not perfect plastic ones that never change.” — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden...… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
One of the biggest mistakes leaders make is to embrace the idea of spurring creativity by letting hundreds of flowers bloom. I've… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
In London I had pear trees in my back garden, so I'd make my own pear and green tomato chutney. — Stephen Moyer Copy Share Image
“1 The summer our marriage failed we picked sage to sweeten our hot dark car. We sat in the yard with heavy… — Dina Ben-Lev Copy Share Image
Early in life, when I first saw waterlilies on the ripples of a lake, I didn't think they were flowers which grew… — Lucian Blaga Copy Share Image
Your trees must be tended; if you can afford it, you owe it to them. I don't buy expensive plants; if I… — Elisabeth Murdoch Copy Share Image
Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“I am slowly learning to pluck the flowers of my past from the weeds, and place them in the window where I… — Leigh Byrne Copy Share Image
“There were no ferns or shocks of crabgrass or other signs of plant life—only the presence of ancient, hulking trees. The woods… — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
