If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“One day when I ventured into the garden to regard its bloom, My eyes beheld on a bower a withered rose. When… — Musharraf Ali Farooqi Copy Share Image
If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over;… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
As a married woman, I know perfectly well what six or eight inches looks like, so it's easy to make a good… — Cassandra Danz Copy Share Image
A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, unites in his own person the three different characters, of landlord,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“Sometimes in life, it is necessary to be a colourful flower that can be noticed even from far away; sometimes you have… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
One of the greatest virtues of gardening is this perpetual renewal of youth and spring, of promise of flower and fruit that… — Edward Augustus Bowles Copy Share Image
“We come from seed,” he told his son, smiling. “We grow up, blossom, and produce fruit. Then the fruit dries and goes… — Diana Palmer Copy Share Image
We belong to no cult. We are not Nature Lovers. We don't love nature any more than we love breathing. Nature is… — Louise Dickinson Rich Copy Share Image
Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which when viewed… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
One ought to be ashamed to make use of the wonders of science embodied in a radio set, the while appreciating them… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If your purse no longer bulges and you've lost your golden treasure, If times you think you're lonely and have hungry grown… — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
There is a dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens in cup and takes it in, while the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Laura's mind was already racing with the creative possibilities presented to her. She whipped out her sketchbook and started to work away… — Paula Brackston Copy Share Image
See yonder another King's garden, which the King waters with his bloody sweat-Gethsemane, whose bitter herbs are sweeter far to renewed souls… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It isn't the kind of profession that you have that makes you flourish; it's what you are coming from, within, that makes… — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
Any mundane activity can become meditative. Digging a hole in the garden, planting new roses in the garden - you can do… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Sitting under a tree, I studied my options. The fall flowers were in full bloom: verbena, goldenrod, chrysanthemum, and a late-blooming rose.… — Vanessa Diffenbaugh Copy Share Image
When we look deeply into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else in… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“It is winter now, and the roses are blooming again, their petals bright against the snow. My father died last April; my… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Indian monks were the first to choose the garden as the proper setting for their lives, which were devoted to the contemplation… — Marie-Luise Gothein Copy Share Image
At the time Gothic cathedrals were designed, most people lived in dark huts, so just walking into a space vastly larger than… — Michael Persinger Copy Share Image
“animal and plant are the descending fifth and third of man, the inorganic kingdom being the lower octave. The full truth of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
...the thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
This is the effect of panic, a natural effect, you could say that animal nature is like this, plant life would behave… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When at last I took the time to look into the heart of a flower, it opened up a whole new world;… — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
“The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; though sometimes… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
Brave old-flowers! Wall-flowers, Gilly flowers, Stocks! For even as the field-flowers, from which a trifle, a ray of beauty, a drop of… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I watched that plant in the office every day. Watered it; misted it. I loved thinking about it like G.T. said, but… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
“Modern literature is a north-east wind--a blight of the human soul. I take credit to myself for having helped to make it… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
“You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
You shall find books and sermons everywhere, in the land and in the sea, in the earth and in the skies, and… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I'm a very big fan of winter-flowering shrubs and bulbs. You have the smell, you have the color - it's really like… — Dries van Noten Copy Share Image
“Anyone who has a garden, park or orchard tree has an opportunity to ensure that it offers protection, brings beauty and bears… — Gabriel Hemery Copy Share Image
The garden [of Eden] is the realm of pure beauty from which man is expelled when he becomes interested in ethics, in… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
“In the rain forest, no niche lies unused. No emptiness goes unfilled. No gasp of sunlight goes untrapped. In a million vest… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Ingratitude is the frost that nips the flower even as it opens, that shrivels the generous apple on the branch, that freezes… — Ann Wroe Copy Share Image
Green, the color of growth, or surgent life, enwraps the land. New green, still as individual as the plants themselves. Cool green,… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image