I grow green beans in my garden. The one thing I know about harvesting them is that you need to train your… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“pleasure’, his enchanting voice was pleasing to her ears.Meanwhile, the maid brought two glasses of fresh mango juice. She placed it on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Weeds – even many intrusive aliens – give something back. They green over the dereliction we have created. They move in to… — Richard Mabey Copy Share Image
“Now that the vertical frame has been constructed, it is time to add something for the plants to grow on. I used… — Mel Bartholomew Copy Share Image
“To gaze at flowers is to plunge into the center of the world, and through the proliferation of forms that overwhelm us… — Claude Nuridsany Copy Share Image
“Trees were not hard, irritable things, but discreetly orgasmic beings moaning at a level too deep for our brutish ears. And flowers… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their… — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
“Looking at it, I got, for the first time, why people would bring flowers to sick people, stuck inside the hospital with… — Morgan Matson Copy Share Image
Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind.… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“Here is the soundless cypress on the lawn: It listens, listens. Taller trees beyond Listen. The moon at the unruffled pond Stares.… — Harold Monro Copy Share Image
“There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery,… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
so my grandmother was not without humanity. and if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in the garden, they were cocktail… — John Irving Copy Share Image
In some ways, I saw the garden as a metaphor for certain aspects of my life. A leader must also tend his… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
As for vegetables, I do not consider a plot of ground devoted to them worthy of the honorable name of garden. Vegetables… — Harrison Gray Otis Dwight Copy Share Image
“I forgot that with the green, the plushness, and shiny plant life that pushed up and surrounded us, with the nourishment it… — Lauren Nicolle Taylor Copy Share Image
We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension,… — Guy Laliberte Copy Share Image
For thee, sweet month; the groves green liveries wear. If not the first, the fairest of the year; For thee the Graces… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“Look up at the sky. Ask yourself, 'Has the sheep eaten the flower or not?' And you'll see how everything changes... And… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“In life, a person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant. The builders might take years over their… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
This sounds cheesy but when I would get in discussions with people about religion or spirituality, a lot of people would say,… — Natalie Maines Copy Share Image
I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
When you're doing exactly what you want to do, it's not tiring. You've been planting these seeds, and finally, you have a… — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing 'Oh how wonderful' and sitting in the shade, While… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
We have the promises of God as thick as daisies in summer meadows, that death, which men most fear, shall be to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“On Wednesday, for variety, he accosted Andrew as Andrew went out to check the state of the garden walls and presented a… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
“She wandered out for a walk. It was the kind of day that pretends spring has come, even though it hasn't. The… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
John Bunyan, while he had a surpassing genius, would not condescend to cull his language from the garden of flowers; but he… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Man is the summit, the crown of nature's development, and must comprehend everything that has preceded him, even as the fruit includes… — Lorenz Oken Copy Share Image
“The day is early with birds beginning and the wren in a cloud piping like the child in the poem, drop thy… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
“The hanging gate, of something like trelliswork, was propped on a pole, and he could see that the house was tiny and… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
Alan Chadwick's garden is a 'garden of the mind' as much as it is of the soil, and like all genuinely inspired… — Page Smith Copy Share Image
“The mind is the only level at which any lasting change can occur—it is the soil in which we plant our hopes… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
My grandmother was this amazing woman in the Dominican Republic who used to read tea leaves and palms. She would cure people… — Selenis Leyva Copy Share Image
“The most she knew about gardens was the Bakers’ own backyard, which contained one large mulberry tree and a rosebush, plus the… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
But in the garden the sun still shone. The innumerable bees hummed. The scent of thyme hung on the air. But only… — Edward Eager Copy Share Image
“We are vastly more powerful than we think we are. With a little support from flowers, we can recognize how deeply we… — Katie Hess Copy Share Image
“If you consider your mind like a garden,' he began earnestly, 'a garden needs to be tended regularly to prevent weeds from… — Tami Egonu Copy Share Image