An altered look about the hills; A Tyrian light the village fills; A wider sunrise in the dawn; A deeper twilight on… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Gardening is one of the rewards of middle age, when one is ready for an impersonal passion, a passion that demands patience,… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Make your books your companions, let your cases and shelves be your pleasure grounds and gardens. Bask in their paradise, gather their… — Samuel ibn Tibbon Copy Share Image
“IT HAD NEVER been such a beautiful May. Every day the sky shone a peerless blue, untouched by cloud. Already, the gardens… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
Nature, left to her own devices, finds it hard to produce anything that is ugly. The work of the plant breeder should… — David C.H. Austin Copy Share Image
It is sparkling light, aromatic plants, a lofty palace, a flowing river, ripe fruit, a beautiful wife and abundant clothing, in an… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
“It was a garden, a walled garden. Overgrown but with beautiful bones visible still. Someone had cared for this garden once. The… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Without our fully realizing it, flowers would become for us an expression in form of that which is most high, most sacred,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry,… — Gary Miller Copy Share Image
“Compared to forest or aquatic ecosystems, grassland is unstable. It requires rather precise geological and climatic conditions, and if these conditions are… — David Rains Wallace Copy Share Image
“What do plants eat? They eat dead animals; that’s the problem. For me that was a horrifying realization. You want to be… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
“I'm what the botanists call a hybrid," he said the first time Cora heard him speak, "A mixture of two different families.… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
We adorn graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in the Holy… — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
As plants take hold, not for the sake of staying, but only that they may climb higher, so it is with men.… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“She described how, when her brother’s body was found in a field and brought home, his fists, clenched in rigor mortis, were… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they are saying, let's stay here.… — Anne Raver Copy Share Image
Young men, you who have any piety at all, what sort is it? Is it a hot-house plant, which must be framed… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
In Sarvamangalam,' I am fond of flowers and I want to own a nursery. My character talks only to flowers. If she… — Shamna Kasim Copy Share Image
Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
But far, oh, far as passionate eye can reach, And long, ah, long as rapturous eye can cling, The world is mine:… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Now the gardener is the one who has seen everything ruined so many times that (even as his pain increases with each… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth,” he said, trying not to laugh. “At a wedding reception, the guests cannot leave until the bride and groom retire. If… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
“I heard a rapid alternation of notes, a vibrating staccato of an ancient instrument, nearly as old as nature herself, a cricket… — Jeffrey A. White Copy Share Image
“A plant can be pulled in many directions at once. Sunlight hitting a plant at an angle caises it to bend toward… — Daniel Chamovitz Copy Share Image
“Never underestimate your abilities. You may never know you were the one who planted the seed that changed someone's life. From little… — Raven Williams Copy Share Image
This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal… We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards… — Jane Grigson Copy Share Image
Raindrops the size of bullets thundered on the castle windows for days on end; the lake rose, the flower beds turned into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“At the end of each day, Elizabeth read to me. She had shelves and shelves of children's classics, dusty hardcovers with stamped… — Vanessa Diffenbaugh Copy Share Image
The thing that was forfeited in the garden was regained. God gave him [Adam] dominion over the works of His hand. God… — John G. Lake Copy Share Image
“garden was inside a white picket fence. Most of the rosebushes had small buds on them. Some had early blossoms. The bushes… — Ron Roy Copy Share Image
Perhaps God does with His heavenly garden as we do with our own. He may chiefly stock it from nurseries, and select… — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
“The purpose was to insure that their regular pollinators - animals that would best serve the plant, not chance visitors that raided… — Richard M. Ketchum Copy Share Image
In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“Artists are the flowers of our world. The best ones are those that can stand out from the crowd and create their… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another, and no sunrise finds us where left… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“My house here is painted the yellow colour of fresh butter on the outside, with glaringly green shutters; it stands in full… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for… — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
My whole interest in food grew from my interest in gardens and the question of how we engage with the natural world.… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image