You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I like muddling things up; and if a herb looks nice in a border, then why not grow it there? Why not… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
The first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys… — Penelope Hobhouse Copy Share Image
Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the… — Samuel Griswold Goodrich Copy Share Image
“I dreamed I stood upon a little hill, And at my feet there lay a ground, that seemed Like a waste garden,… — Lord Alfred Douglas Copy Share Image
“The little prince, who was present at the first appearance of a huge bud, felt at once that some sort of miraculous… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
A springlike autumn's balmy breeze reaches afar. The sun shines on the house of a recluse South of the river; They encourage… — Sun Bu'er Copy Share Image
A short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“The grass is green The tulip is red A ginger cat walks over The pink almond petals on the flower bed. Enough… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
“Even though the bee is small, there she is on the flower, doing something of value. And the value she creates there… — Jay Ebben Copy Share Image
“...is a pale desert of gigantic water-lilies. They sigh one unto the other in that solitude. And stretch towards the heaven their… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Life is incomplete without understanding the language of the beauty of the flowers, rocks, fine mountain lines, autumn leaves, clouds, stars and… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
Give me artificial flowers - porcelain and metal glories - neither fading nor decaying, forms unaging. Flowers of the splendid gardens of… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that my own hands, all of my life, I… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
May and June. Soft syllables, gentle names for the two best months in the garden year: cool, misty mornings gently burned away… — H. Peter Loewer Copy Share Image
“There was a strong but not unpleasant smell- moist earth, decomposing leaf matter, new flowers beginning to catch the day's sun- and… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Wherever man exists, he finds the need to redesign, to recreate the world. A more beautiful world, purer, sweeter smelling and more… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
It's there. The white rose among the dried flowers in the vase. Shriveled and fragile, but holding on to that unnatural perfection… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
This planet is an exquisitely arranged and interconnected system. What's controlled in one place is going to have consequences in another place.… — Marjorie Harris Copy Share Image
“Her hands pressed warm against the glass as her gaze swept the scene below: cream and pink roses, petals shining as if… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
A flower is your cousin...Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Well," he said, "I think we've found our way in. We just wait until they're duking it out, but trust me, these… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
It was Lisa, aged five, whose mother asked her to thank my wife for the peas we had sent them from our… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
My garden is a slow work, pursued with love and I do not deny that I am proud of it. Forty years… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
“The sun which warms the plant can under other conditions also wither it. The rain which nourishes the flower can under other… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The plants continued to grow at an alarming rate, adding as much as a foot to their height and girth every week,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“The cactus of the high desert is a small grubby, obscure and humble vegetable associated with cattle dung and overgrazing, interesting only… — Edward Abbey "Desert Solitaire Copy Share Image
Most of the nations that have serious gardening cultures have, or had, empires. You can't have this luxury of pleasure without somebody… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“She had dispersed. She was the garden at Prem Nivas (soon to be entered into the annual Flower Show), she was Veena's… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I have a plant called Roger Franklin and he is really special. I'm not trying to sound weird, but he has a… — Bria Vinaite Copy Share Image
They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. Thats ridiculous. If you rid the earth of… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
“On our garden walks Mama always used to tell me, 'Angels live in gardens, Darcy.' 'Where?' I would ask, looking around for… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
“A rain forest springs from the droppings of animals and grows greater than any cultivated garden; likewise, a great mass of literary… — Agona Apell Copy Share Image
“I believe that we, that this planet, hasn't seen its Golden Age. Everybody says its finished ... art's finished, rock and roll… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
We have had drought where I live in New Mexico for several years, and I began to think about rain and green… — Mei-mei Berssenbrugge Copy Share Image
