“Things grow for me in the garden, little green promises that, in good time, are kept: I will give you tomatoes, I… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“We walked among the different plants and by using The Book, we did our best to identify them and understand how to… — Rajani LaRocca Copy Share Image
You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I noticed the plants growing around me. Tall with leaves like arrowheads. Blossoms with three white petals. I knelt down in the… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed Their snow-white blossoms on my head, With brightest sunshine round me spread Of spring's unclouded weather,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“PLANTS ARE LIKE ANIMALS Only about five processes are fundamental to life, no matter the kingdom. These processes are growth, feeding, defense,… — Scott Zona Copy Share Image
“But something that never escapes me as I putter about the garden, physically and mentally: desire and curiosity inform the inevitable boundaries… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Over the course of fifteen years of research on plant development, I came to the conclusion that for understanding the development of… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
What is different and exciting is how much we have learned. We learned we were right that we don't need the chemical… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and… — Joseph Paxton Copy Share Image
The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Nothing in the nature lives for itself Rivers don't drink their own water Trees don't eat their own fruit Sun doesn't give… — Ritu Ghatourey 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
“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
When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will… — Masanobu Fukuoka 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
“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
“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
“I own a flower myself,” he (The Little Prince) continued, “which I water every day. I own three volcanoes, which I rake… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 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
“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
“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
“If you wish to make anything grow, you must understand it, and understand it in a very real sense. 'Green fingers' are… — Russell Page Copy Share Image
Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Morning is the best of all times in the garden. The sun is not yet hot. Sweet vapors rise from the earth.… — William Longgood Copy Share Image
The more contemplative gardener, seeing the garden as a whole, the design of it, and its nature as a still place of… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
“What is a flower? A giant sexual organ in its Sunday best. The truth has been known for a long time, yet,… — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
“As we think about the next 50 years, I remember a story President Kennedy told a week before he was killed. The… — Newton N. Minnow Copy Share Image
In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“For this, let gardens grow, where beelines end, sighing in roses, saffron blooms, buddleia; where bees pray on their knees, sing, praise… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the… — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal...Its tenacious fibers… — John James Ingalls Copy Share Image
“A nuclear reactor is a proposed "solution" to "the energy problem." But like all big-technological "solutions," this one "solves" a single problem… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By nature, we are a plant-based intelligence - not just our exhale, which plants inhale, but they are my food chain. They… — Horst Rechelbacher Copy Share Image
By having a direct stake and involvement with the process of plants growing, of having your hands in the soil and tending… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
