I realized that nature had invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward, as a life force that passes right… — Louie Schwartzberg Copy Share Image
See yonder another King's garden, which the King waters with his bloody sweat-Gethsemane, whose bitter herbs are sweeter far to renewed souls… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We aren't the weeds in the crack of life. We're the strong,amazing flowers that found a way to grow in the most… — Jeanne McElvaney Copy Share Image
Children are like tiny flowers: They are varied and need care, but each is beautiful alone and glorious when seen in the… — Friedrich Frobel Copy Share Image
A flower can grow if you can take care of it. It's like a bridge you need to hold it together, to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In our everyday garden grow the rosemary, juniper, ferns and plane trees, perfectly tangible and visible. For these plants that have an… — Leo Lionni Copy Share Image
“Oh, the meadows were gold and the sky so blue, I traveled down that pebble path I so well knew. The sun… — Katlyn Charlesworth Copy Share Image
“From Koltovitch's copse and garden there came a strong fragrant scent of lilies of the valley and honey-laden flowers. Pyotr Mihalitch rode… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Somewhere on the world was the Emperor's palace, set amid one hundred square miles of natural soil, rainbowed with flowers.” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Success and failure, triumph and disaster. That is the rhythm of life in the garden. — Patience Strong Copy Share Image
It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enameling the vales of human beings as the flowers paint the meadows. They are not… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Another thing much too commonly seen, is an aberration of the human mind which otherwise I should have been ashamed to warn… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Thinking the deed, and not the creed, Would help us in our utmost need. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been;… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Our planet doesn't seem to be the result of anything very special — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
It's my observation that gardeners and gardening for a very long time have had to take a back seat. Architects are very… — Robert Irwin Copy Share Image
“Picture a single imaginary plant, bearing throughout one season all the different vegetables we harvest…we’ll call it a vegetannual.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each… — Kilgore Trout Copy Share Image
One of the first gardens I did outside the family was for the designer Hattie Carnegie. I was 23 then, and I… — Rachel Lambert Mellon Copy Share Image
I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
Just opening quietly for moments everyday can create a path by which life can reach us, the way rain carves a little… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“Around her the trees and wild flowers, with that oddly courteous air of natural things suddenly interrupted in their pressing occupations of… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; though sometimes… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
Immortal amarant, a flower which once In paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden. — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity,… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca Copy Share Image
“They are so frail humans. So easily crumpled and broken, like flower petals under foot.” — Jennifer Hudock Copy Share Image
There are thousands of books on the joy of gardening and cooking. Alas, there are only few on the joy of living. — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
I grew up in Washington, D.C. Suffice to say, it was not a garden spot. — Jonathan Banks Copy Share Image
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There isn't a plant or a business on earth that couldn't stand a few improvements-and be better for them. Someone is going… — Roger Babson Copy Share Image
There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived… — Harriette Simpson Arnow Copy Share Image
My dad will sit out in the last tiny corner of the garden that has sunshine until the millisecond the final vestige… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been born with a… — Emma Tennant Copy Share Image
Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden… — Ouida Copy Share Image
