“What would you like for your own life, Kate, if you could choose?” “Anything?” “Of course anything.” “That’s really easy, Aunty Ivy.”… — Valentina Hepburn Copy Share Image
Great projects, like great careers and relationships that last, are gardens. They are tended, they shift, they grow. They endure over time,… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Friendships fail some years, blight twists the leaves and the crop is bitter. Frost bites or sudden fire devours: but the root… — Charlotte Gray Copy Share Image
Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are many tired gardeners but I've seldom met old gardeners. I know many elderly gardeners but the majority are young at… — Allan Armitage Copy Share Image
Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face with any… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
“But this home over here: it needed paint but had flowers neatly planted all the way around it. That one over there… — Dan Baum Copy Share Image
All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke. The plants imbibe the materialswhich they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
White rose in red rose-garden Is not so white; Snowdrops, that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“The garden shimmered with candlelight from dozens of sweetly scented beeswax tapers set around to illuminate the space. In the center stood… — Tracy Anne Warren Copy Share Image
“That night, I fell into a deep, travel-weary sleep, lulled by the familiar sound of the waterfall beyond the window. I dreamed… — Hazel Gaynor Copy Share Image
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is Autumn, as you know, and things are beginning to die. It is so wonderful to be out in the crisp… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“The Sunlight on the Garden The sunlight on the garden Hardens and grows cold, We cannot cage the minute Within its nets… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
“What more could he need, this old man whose little leisure was divided between day-time gardening and night-time contemplation? Was not that… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Briers do not become flowers when there is no danger present. While the forest has flowering plants, it also has trees and… — Andrew St. Cyr Copy Share Image
All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Behind her the sun was still shining, so that every grove and every single tree between her and the storm blazed ardent… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“BEAUTIFUL LILY PETALS Walking down our street towards the house I notice some beautiful white lily petals on the pavement in front… — Tim Bradford Copy Share Image
The progress of this famous plant has been something like the progress of truth; suspected at first, though very palatable to those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My children threw me a life line: "Return to your roots - food - and rewrite your first book, Diet for a… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
“My eyes blinked like a camera shutter clicking through the frames of my life, except the images were mismatched and haphazard: a… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
What a difference that extra 120 ppm has made for plants, and for animals and humans that depend on them. The more… — Paul Driessen Copy Share Image
“will plant!” True to his word, on Friday, when she arrived, there were dozens of plants waiting by the garden plot that… — Sarah Price Copy Share Image
The ideal garden is one in which a collection of trees, shrubs and plants have been procured and allotted to the best… — Penelope Hobhouse Copy Share Image
For optimal health, we need body and spirit, exercise (ming) and meditation, awareness of the inner world and the outer. In other… — Ken Cohen Copy Share Image
Natural objects themselves, even when they make no claim to beauty, excite the feelings, and occupy the imagination. Nature pleases, attracts, delights,… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
“Let not the curse of Witches Destroy a land of natural riches. Plants, preserve life in thy roots, Seeds sleep in earth,… — Amber Argyle Copy Share Image
“In the kitchen, she made passionflower tea, turning the jar of loose leaves in her hand while a teaspoon's worth steeped in… — Barbara Delinsky Copy Share Image
Sometimes a game comes at just the right moment in your life. 'Flower' is beautiful, serene, and a bit of sunshine in… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
The term biodynamics - push it aside, it is verbosity. It doesn't matter a bit. One has to use words to make… — Alan Chadwick Copy Share Image
Fall is not the end of the gardening year; it is the start of next year's growing season. The mulch you lay… — Thalassa Cruso Copy Share Image
“Don’t ask for everything on your platter,” she said. “Be satisfied with a wrinkled pea, for there’s another world we’re all going… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Children, don't waste a single second. Serve others, above all the poor, expecting nothing in return. Just as the person who offers… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“... from the classically executed lifelike bouquets, tempting you to reach for the petals that fell on a three-dimensional tablecloth, to a… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
A freak but moist flower tangles my lungs, knits into my heart, crawls up my throat and sucks like octopi on my… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“When I gardened at home, I often considered how the growth of plants resembles the gradual growth of the spirit. And seeing… — Janet Benton Copy Share Image
Everything is born from change. ...there is nothing nature loves more that to alter what exists and make new things like it.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
