Flowers are one of the few things we buy, bring home, watch die, and we don't ask for our money back. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Plant growing in temperate climates. The beautiful flower panicles that appear for several months emit a sweet honey fragrance that will be… — Alan Summers Copy Share Image
A garden is the mirror of a mind. It is a place of life, a mystery of green moving to the pulse… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place. — Eve Best Copy Share Image
I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in… — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“A nuclear reactor is a proposed "solution" to "the energy problem." But like all big-technological "solutions," this one "solves" a single problem… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal...Its tenacious fibers… — John James Ingalls Copy Share Image
By nature, we are a plant-based intelligence - not just our exhale, which plants inhale, but they are my food chain. They… — Horst Rechelbacher Copy Share Image
“For this, let gardens grow, where beelines end, sighing in roses, saffron blooms, buddleia; where bees pray on their knees, sing, praise… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“As we think about the next 50 years, I remember a story President Kennedy told a week before he was killed. The… — Newton N. Minnow Copy Share Image
When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thought unexpressed- that… — Goethe Copy Share Image
I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The gossamer web of life, spun on the loom of sunlight from the breath of an infant Earth, is nature's crowning achievement… — Preston Cloud Copy Share Image
“It all goes around It all goes around The planet goes around the sun It all goes around My mother said it… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
Through primrose tufts, in that sweet bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
There is something about a fresh flower arrangement that just livens up a room with beautiful colors, textures, and scent. — Kendra Scott Copy Share Image
We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax, the bugs and weeds of negativity… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
In a twilight garden, when a brown nightingale starts singing, what is left to a blonde chicken is to remain silent. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand. — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Yes, I'd love to have a garden of my own--spacious, and full of everything that is fragrant and flowering. But if I… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
A warm, rainy day-this is how it feels when friends get together. Friend refreshes friend then, as flowers do each others, in… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The work of a garden bears visible fruits-in a world where most of our labours seem suspiciously meaningless. — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
I just do my own thing, and my flower continues to blossom like one of those delicious Bloomin' Onions from Outback Steakhouse. — Willam Belli Copy Share Image
If you wish to enrich days, plant flowers; If you wish to enrich years, plant trees; If you wish to enrich Eternity,… — S. Truett Cathy Copy Share Image
I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a… — Janet Erskine Stuart Copy Share Image
I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while I'm doing gardening in upstate New York. Their music is so languid,… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation… — Jawaharlal Nehru 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
In gardens it's not just plants and insects and microbes that grow. People grow too, and the best bit is that they… — Costa Georgiadis Copy Share Image
Humbly serving all with their beauty, flowers say more to us about God than anything else. Each one brings a message that… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
