“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
![“The thing that was forfeited in the garden was regained. God gave him [Adam] dominion over the works of His hand. God made him His understudy, His king to rule over everything that had life. Man was master, man lived in the realm of god. He lived on terms of equality with God. God was a faith God…” quote by John G. Lake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/428/john-g-lake-12667_adam_the-thing-that-was-forfeited-in-the-gard_84356.jpg)
