“If you place flowers there with your mind fully given over to a god, those flowers will surely reach that deity's feet.… — Lakshmi Holmstrom Copy Share Image
“Plants do not attack with their poison and spine as humans do.They only defend.” — tspkumar Copy Share Image
Not as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai. Coiling… — Clark Ashton Smith Copy Share Image
“Turn that worthless lawn into a beautiful garden of food whose seeds are stories sown, whose foods are living origins. Grow a… — Martin Prechtel Copy Share Image
No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's… — William Shenstone 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
In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
“She's magic, Cassandra. A single flower blooming in an endless desert.” — Anne Bishop Copy Share Image
“Spread over what must have been at least a hectare or two was the most beautiful garden he had ever seen. There… — Liz Braswell Copy Share Image
Abundance is mine. I cannot be deprived of my supply. The trees do not lack for leaves, nor do the flowers fail… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this? — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
“And my difficulties were these: I found each plant, each new turn in the road, each new turn in the weather, from… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
London, thou art the flower of cities all! Gemme of all joy, jasper of jocunditie. — William Dunbar Copy Share Image
“Miss Marple always sees everything. Gardening is as good as a smoke screen, and the habit of observing birds through powerful glasses… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Every garden scheme should have a backbone, a central idea beautifully phrased. Every wall, path, stone and flower should have its relationship… — Edwin Lutyens Copy Share Image
“(Carnations) The only flower that, when given to someone, is marginally superior to dead ones.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
The loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. It is… — Elizabeth Fry Copy Share Image
This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives… — William Bligh Copy Share Image
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
