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
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 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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
