“How lucky country children are in these natural delights that lie ready to their hand! Every season and every plant offers changing… — Miss Read Copy Share Image
“Most of this is my contribution to Havenhurst,” she told him proudly. The sight that Ian beheld when he looked up made… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
Christianity sees plants and flowers as created by God to show forth and share with humans the divine goodness, beauty and truth… — John Stokes Copy Share Image
Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is a nice metaphor, too, about mothers and daughters - that when it came time for me to make my own,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Working with some real dirt seemed fitting for a woman whose hands felt like they would remain forever filthy. She decided to… — Ken Goldman --From SINKHOLE Copy Share Image
A long time ago, there were lovers that lived on the opposite ends of a river. They promised to meet when the… — John the Apostle Copy Share Image
He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork,… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“For you little gardener and lover of trees, I have only a small gift. Here is set G for Galadriel, but it… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Neer picked up two water plants that floated nearby. She looked at them and told Champa that these flowers looked different every… — Priyadarshini Copy Share Image
...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a… — David Fairchild Copy Share Image
“A woman who's given me a home-a purpose.And for the first time in my life,I-" "A purpose ?" Jennika squints, as she… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
The eighteenth-century view of the garden was that it should lead the observer to the enjoyment of the aesthetic sentiments of regularity… — Penelope Hobhouse Copy Share Image
“Mr. Grote shows me how he grows wild rice in the stream and collects the seeds. The rice is nutty and brown.… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Let us have gardens, then, and other public places where we may see our friends, and parade our vanities, if you will,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
The first gatherings of the garden in May of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby… — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
A seed has to get buried in the soil for its real form as a plant to emerge. Only through modesty and… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Under the ground seep the toxins of the population that lives above. If you have to, you will eat roots and earthworms.… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
A man is born gentle and weak. At death, he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
...A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going,… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“From the sound of pattering raindrops I recaptured the scent of the lilacs at Combray; from the shifting of the sun's rays… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Plants are decisive to a fault. A stem produces a bud that flowers once and once only. It offers pollen that is… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
A grower of chrysanthemums awaited a visit from the emperor, who was coming to enjoy his blossoms, of which there were hundreds… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
“Final Disposition Others divided closets full of mother's things. From the earth, I took her poppies. I wanted those fandango folds of… — Jane Glazer Copy Share Image
Gardening can be a compelling cooperative activity. Your best harvest may be the pleasure you get from working with family and friends.… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
“This soil is bad for certain kinds of flowers. Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear, and… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children. Consider the silent influencewhich flowers… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“You designed the garden then?" "Oh no, 'twasn't meself at all. His lordship did all the work. Had drawings and lists of… — Tracy Anne Warren Copy Share Image
I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll… — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
“There aren’t a lot of hobbies you can eat. Like, let’s say you love to cook. That’s a bad example. Let’s say… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
“...Bud forth as the rose planted by the brooks of waters. Give ye a sweet odor as frankincense. Send forth flowers, as… — Douai-Rheims Bible Copy Share Image
“In the symbiotic community of the forest, not only trees but also shrubs and grasses—and possibly all plant species—exchange information this way.… — Peter Wohlleben Copy Share Image
“I had traveled far, had circled the planet and studied my Torah, and at the very end of my search I was… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
“What is this stuff, do you know?” he asked. “No, I don’t,” said Hazel. “I’ve never seen it before.” “There’s a lot… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie… — Amanda Donohoe Copy Share Image
He even knew the reason why: because enough men had gone off to war saying the time for gardening was when the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The flakes stuck in my eyelashes. They fell on my sleeves. Huge. Flowers and stars. They fell onto each other, held their… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
