“For centuries the Mountrachets had been keen horticulturists. Forebear after forebear had traveled far and wide, spanning the globe in search of… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“When I was ten, my mother got me a subscription to a website called Seeds Anonymous,” I said. “Every month I would… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“The torchlit garden was redolent with the colors and scents of autumn... gold and copper foliage, thick borders of roses and dahlias,… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
All flesh is grass. and all its glory fades Like the fair flower dishevell'd in the wind; Riches have wings, and grandeur… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Another thing much too commonly seen, is an aberration of the human mind which otherwise I should have been ashamed to warn… — William Morris Copy Share Image
“… each body on this Earth is a flower, and the mind it holds is a flower that will flourish and fade;… — Marc Hamer Copy Share Image
Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in,… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Nature promotes mutualism. The flower nourishes the bee. The river waters quench the thirst of all living beings. And trees provide a… — Ram Nath Kovind Copy Share Image
“The plants and animals all around us were waking from a long sleep, and our yard was slowly transformed into a carpet… — Arlene Stafford-Wilson Copy Share Image
Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
“He criss-crossed the kitchen-garden beyond the asparagus beds: fruit trees and strawberry beds and bean poles and a chicken-wire enclosure where raspberry… — Philippa Pearce Copy Share Image
We are extremely uncomfortable with the spiritual aspects of gardening, and yet most people feel it in some form or other, even… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
“…"The mind I love must have wild places: a tangled orchard where damsons drop in heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, a… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Miriam - I'll give you any flowers you want!' Rhapsodising over the thousand scents of her body, I exclaimed: 'I'll grow orchids… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“...[T]he right way is to give one's attention first to the highest good of the young, just as you expect a good… — Plato Copy Share Image
He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I see a flower. It gives me a sensation of the beautiful. I wish to paint it. And as soon as I… — Georges Vantongerloo Copy Share Image
“In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens --… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with insects, particularly insect flight. I think the evolution of insect flight is perhaps one of the most important events… — Michael Dickinson Copy Share Image
Natural history is a matter of observation; it is a harvest which you gather when and where you find it growing. Birds… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“In the small seeds of plants lie hidden both bulk and branches, bud and fruit. In a few principles lie hidden all… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
The art of living demands that our interest in bringing forth flowers in our family life equal the interest we take in… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far… — Russell Page Copy Share Image
Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The flat area immediately below was broken up into a formal pattern of beds containing oleander and more clipped clouds of box,… — Deborah Lawrenson Copy Share Image
As leaders we do not create growth. The best we can do is create an environment that is conducive to growth. It… — James Hunter Copy Share Image
A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“In the Ondariva gardens the branches spread out like the tentacles of extraordinary animals, and the plants on the ground opened up… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I've been sleeping through my life Now I'm waking up And I want to stand in the sunshine I have never been… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
“love were a garden, dating would be the weed killer. Unfortunately, many times the worst weeds survive the initial application, often requiring… — Alaina Stanford Copy Share Image
A flower is not a flower. It is made only of non-flower elements - sunshine, clouds, time, space, earth, minerals, gardeners, and… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“With this increased diversity at the base of the food chain, there are increased opportunities for insects and fungi and bacteria that… — Chris D. Thomas Copy Share Image
The copycats around a real talent are like the wild bushes overgrowing round a beautiful plant bearing scented flowers. Even if scrubs… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
“Our bonfire burns brightly, alighting our hot harvest. Scarce seeds of winter's heat, as its first dawn inflames. Sprouting into a plant… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
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