“There is in the garden a plant which one ought to leave dry, although most people water it. It is the weed… — Cosimo de' Medici Copy Share Image
Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there. I will touch a hundred flowers… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Someone once said writing and gardening are similar pursuits. Tell you what, I'd have one fucked up garden if that were the… — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
Genius is a native to the soil where it grows - is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun; and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“He felt it deep, like a stone too big to heft out of the garden. He just had to how around it… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
A miraculous healing awaits this planet once we accept our new responsibility to collectively tend the Garden, rather than fight over the… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
“Soon some of the plants were as big as fruit trees. There were fans of long emerald-green leaves, flowers resembling peacock tails… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
A drop of water has the tastes of the water of the seven seas: there is no need to experience all the… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
“popcorn, with Jordan fast on her heels. They sprinted into the dense growth of the overburdened flower beds and began running zigzag… — Tracy Brogan Copy Share Image
“Without sight to get in the way of things, the whole world was suddenly alive with sound: the lapping of water as… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
The gardens I love best are those that are still affectionately tended by the people who own them and who made them… — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
Late April and you are three; today We dug your garden in the yard. To curb the damage of your play, Strange… — W. D. Snodgrass Copy Share Image
“The Flowers All the names I know from nurse: Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse, Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock, And the Lady Hollyhock. Fairy… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“There was something about the garden that reminded her of Nell's backyard in Brisbane. Not the plants so much as the mood.… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between… — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
“Eden is within you; it is your life's garden. It is from this internal garden that you experience your external life. If… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“He made two or three peculiar observations; as when shewn the botanical garden, 'Is not EVERY garden a botanical garden?” — James Boswell Copy Share Image
“Watch batteries gleam in the center of dark flowers. Henna painted with conductive ink, waiting to be turned on.” — Alex Livingston Copy Share Image
“History doesn't remember gardens. … You forgot the wise administrators, those who kept the peace, those who brought prosperity. You needn’t feel… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
All things are symbols: the external shows Of Nature have their image in the mind , As flowers and fruits and falling… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Reading books about gardens is a potent pastime; books nourish a gardener's mind in the same way as manure nourishes plants.” — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
“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
“I now call trees "tree beings," flowers and shrubs "plant beings," and lakes and rivers "water beings." They are as alive as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone is entitled to a home where the sun, the stars, open fields, giant trees, and smiling flowers are free to teach… — Jens Jensen Copy Share Image
I've never really understood the criticism that climbing is inherently selfish, since it could equally be argued about virtually any other hobby… — Alex Honnold Copy Share Image
Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring,… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind, Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
In Eastern lands they talk in flowers, And they tell in a garland their loves and cares; Each blossom that blooms in… — James Gates Percival Copy Share Image
Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning — Charles Rennie Mackintosh Copy Share Image
I grew up at my grandmother's house and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding,… — Elton John Copy Share Image
You know the way that children play make-believe in the garden? I did that and I thought, 'This will do for life.… — Harry Treadaway Copy Share Image
Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower ; the earth is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The park grass looked greener, the park benches looked better and the flowers were trying harder. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“As the flowers are all made sweeter by the sunshine and the dew, So this old world is made brighter by the… — Bonnie Parker Copy Share Image
Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the… — Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon Copy Share Image
