“Pluck thou my flower, Oothoon the mild; Another flower shall spring, because the soul of sweet delight Can never pass away.” — William Blake Copy Share Image
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Flowers every night Blossom in the sky; Peace in the Infinite, At peace am I. — Rumi Copy Share Image
In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
We do not wish to imitate nature, we do not wish to reproduce. We want to produce. We want to produce the… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
“...bright, flowery plants... were busy committing the olfactory equivalent of aggravated assault.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
and I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. and i will never… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the… — Susan Orlean 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
Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Don't wear perfume in the garden - unless you want to be pollinated by bees! ” — Anne Raver Copy Share Image
Children are a plant substitute and we haven't the wit to see it until too late — Jill Tweedie 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
“Darwin called such a process artificial, as opposed to natural, selection, but from the flower’s point of view, this is a distinction… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Take time to stop and smell the flowers. And if it's weed. Stop and smoke some — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which… — Jeremy Northam Copy Share Image
The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
