The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“When a kind person is amongst the rude, he is amongst the tree stumps! When a rude person is amongst the kind,… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
You plant, then you cultivate, and finally you harvest. Plant, cultivate, harvest. In today's world, everyone wants to go directly from plant… — Jeff Olson Copy Share Image
Does anything eat flowers. I couldn't recall having seen anything eat a flower - are they nature's privileged pets? — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Our notion of what makes a paradise always returns to the image of a beautiful and fruitful garden. — Jeff Cox Copy Share Image
I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture,… — Gates McFadden Copy Share Image
The garden is as good a symbol as you can find of a dialectic between spheres of experience - of culture and… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
“A tissue of small sounds filled the room, a bird, a clock, a voice from another garden. What we call silence.” — Patrick McGrath Copy Share Image
“Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is a wonderful place where flowers grow in colors beyond the words of poets... trees sing with the songs of butterflies.… — Laurel Burch Copy Share Image
For a stalk to grow or a flower to open there must be time that cannot be forced; nine months must go… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“A milpa is a field, usually but not always recently cleared, in which farmers plant a dozen crops at once, including maize,… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
“Ever since, two summers ago, Joe Marino had begun to come into her bed, a preposterous fecundity had overtaken the staked plans,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to… — Gertrude Jekyll Copy Share Image
Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“We’re organisms; we’re conceived, we’re born, we live, we die, and we decay. But as we decay we feed the world of… — Bill Bass Copy Share Image
One of the most perfect and unfailing joys of life is planting. It is the creative joy felt by God. — Candace Wheeler Copy Share Image
“It is the image in the mind that links us to our lost treasures; but it is the loss that shapes the… — Colette Copy Share Image
Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in… — Marcelene Cox Copy Share Image
The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Flowers, trees, and leaves are all gorgeous expressions of nature’s innate joy. Notice the bounty surrounding you.” — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
“Now stay back," he added curtly, "or you're going to lose your virginity in this damned garden.” — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“One good thing about the rain is that it is not only destructive, in that it can bring dead plants back to… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Most folks probably think that gardens only get tended when they're blooming. But most folks would be wrong.” — Shannon Wiersbitzky Copy Share Image
This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up---no more… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching. — Frank Auerbach Copy Share Image
Through the lights cameras and action, glamour glitters and gold I unfold the scroll, plant seeds to stampede the globe... — Nas Copy Share Image
In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
“Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair and let us huddle together as darkness takes over. We… — Susan Polis Schutz Copy Share Image
Do not make your aim like the garden because everyone walk on it But make your aim like the sky so everyone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed… — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
There is a tale...It tells of the days when a blight hung over our land. Nothing prospered. Nothing flourished. Not even zucchini… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
“She confused in her desire the sensualities of luxury with the delights of the heart, elegance of manners with delicacy of sentiment.… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I like it when I'm chirpy and happy, so I decided to do my hair green. I got my sunflowers too -… — Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Copy Share Image
The Great Way has no gate. Clear water has no taste. The tongue has no bone. In complete stillness, a stone girl… — Seungsahn Copy Share Image
“Helen worked in her back garden, planting her tulip and crocus bulbs. Her irritation with the world had dampened into a cushion… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
