August is ripening grain in the fields blowing hot and sunny, the scent of tree-ripened peaches, of hot buttered sweet corn on… — Jean Hersey Copy Share Image
From 1997 to 2003, there was a decline of 50 percent in the proportion of children nine to twelve who spent time… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
The main characteristic of Nature's farming can therefore be summed up in a few words. Mother earth never attempts to farm without… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I hope you will understand it! Linnaeus says the plants get married and make new plant families, and then those families intermarry… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
Simplest of blossoms! To mine eye Thou bring'st the summer's painted sky; The May-thorn greening in the nook; The minnows sporting in… — David Macbeth Moir Copy Share Image
I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour,… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
My mom is a master gardener and I grew up on a farm. I came back to it really late in life… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
This constant stream of qualia we feel in our stomachs. The big-leafed plant lifts its wings to greet the planet's chemistry, the… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
“I would like to build a garden," she declared. "After all of this... I think the world needs more gardens." My throat… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
A garden was one of the few thing in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I like when she [Martha Stewart] demonstrates how to transport a potted plant while wearing Hermes pants and uses enough packing material… — Alexis Stewart Copy Share Image
Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's… — Jody Watley Copy Share Image
Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself. But if… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“It's difficult to know when love blooms; suddenly one day you wake up and it's in full flower. It works the same… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
Silently a flower blooms, In silence it falls away; Yet here now, at this moment, at this place, The world of the… — Zenkei Shibayama Copy Share Image
“I just learned two things there at that college, Mr. Ford, that was ever of any use to me. One was that… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
Clyde Phillip Wachsberger's delightful memoir about tending beds of flowers as compensation for a lonely middle age only to find unexpected romance… — Philip Gambone Copy Share Image
When Lawrence first found a gentian, a big single blue one, I remember feeling as if he had a strange communion with… — Frieda Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In… — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image
That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful generations concern not us: we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I grew up in the old neighborhood of Beijing where you had a courtyard and trees. Actually, the whole of Beijing was… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
It was difficult to enjoy the trees and flowers when I was so aware of all that I had not yet done… — Jay Neugeboren Copy Share Image
“She gazed across the veranda to a formal garden beyond. An area of green lawn was set up with chairs and tables,… — Ellen Read Copy Share Image
It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em," said Captain Jim.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Future's the only flower worth tending in this earth, where I sow my words daily: and you know, these good trees bear… — Alamgir Hashmi Copy Share Image
A plant I have grown for years without really taking much notice of is epimedium. You know how it is: someone gives… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
Faith is the root, the necessary beginning. Hope is the stem, the energy that makes the plant grow. Love is the fruit,… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
If a solution fails to appear ... and yet we feel success is just around the corner, try resting for a while.… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“Let a thing be but a sort of punctual surprise, like the first cache of violets in March, let it be delicate,… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
Think of your mind, your emotions, and your spirit as the ultimate garden. The way to ensure a bountiful, nourishing harvest is… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of… — Jane Pauley Copy Share Image
“There was something wonderful about the atmosphere at Stony Cross Park. One could easily imagine it as some magical place set in… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“How this peculiar grass, native to Central America and unknown to the Old World before 1492, came to colonize so much of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Time that weakens all things else has but strengthened the impregnable position of the believer's faith and hope and confidence. And as,… — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a… — Clyde Tombaugh Copy Share Image
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
People give flowers as present because flowers contain true meaning of love. Anyone who tries to posses a flower will have to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“It represented how Mother had lived: reach for the heavens, be firm, be unique, and don’t be swayed by other people’s ideas.… — Mariko Tatsumoto Copy Share Image