“Quite honestly, most of us don’t live in a world with perfect loam.” — Mark Whitelaw Copy Share Image
We are like flowers always reaching up towards some shred of light. I find this wondrous, nearly magical, certainly brave. — Marisa Silver Copy Share Image
A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of… — Russell Page Copy Share Image
My mother and grandmother created this secret garden where it was OK for boys to play with dolls, and it was OK… — Leslie Jordan Copy Share Image
“The little flowers grew everywhere around the rocks, and no one had asked them to grow, or me to grow.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The plants have taught me they don't like to be potted too long - it's very restrictive to them so I would… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
Scents bring memories, and many memories bring nostalgic pleasure. We would be wise to plan for this when we plant a garden. — Thalassa Cruso Copy Share Image
We can hold back neither the coming of the flowers nor the downward rush of the stream; sooner or later, everything comes… — Li Ching-Yuen Copy Share Image
I've just got a flat with a little balcony, so I did that fantastic thing of buying far too many plants and… — Natasia Demetriou 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
“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
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
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
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
“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