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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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 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
They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also… — Thomas More 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
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