“We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit: alas for us, if we get a few pinches… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In reality, what difference is there between a flower and our imagination? There is none truly, for the world is a living… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no… — Alexander Crummell Copy Share Image
We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Creativity is a fragile, delicate flower, which must be cautiously cared for and protected, from the harsh elements of "human weather.” — ELLE NICOLAI Copy Share Image
The summer has ended. The garden withers. The mornings become chill. I am thirty, I am thirty-four -the years turn dry as… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“I cultivate hatred of action like a greenhouse flower. I’m proud of myself for dissenting from life.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
One of the things I learnt very quickly about gardening on social media is that you can't do anything right. But I… — Joe Sugg Copy Share Image
O ye whose years unfolding fair Are fresh with youth, and free from care, Should vice and indolence desire The garden of… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
Like flowers and plants, we too need ground under our feet, warmth and sunshine and food for our spirit, protective boundaries, tending… — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
On turf and curb and bower-roof The snow-storm spreads its ivory woof; It paves with pearl the garden-walk; And lovingly around the… — John Townsend Trowbridge Copy Share Image
It's fun to think about plants not just as decorations but as functioning parts of our yard's ecosystem that attract wildlife to… — Katherine Center Copy Share Image
“And I think of the night-blooming cereus, a plant that looks like a leathery weed most of the year. But for one… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
People in England who do not like gardening are very few, and of the few there are, many do not own to… — E. M. Delafield Copy Share Image
“Buried seeds thrown to the surface by explosion and trench digging have resulted in surreal sprays of early spring flowers, growing among… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“For every day under the sun, he slowly began to live life like he felt the branches in his heart with its… — Tsholofelo Lehaha Copy Share Image
A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wake the day, ¦ Muted mountains mist, cold, wet, grey, ¦ Blessed hope, now flower unto natures spring — John Rokas Copy Share Image
These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity,… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca Copy Share Image
“If you invited a hedge wizard to a party, he would spend half the evening talking to your potted plant. And he… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We are alone on this planet. It's not a choice. Here we are. This is what everyone has to deal with. — Andreas Gursky Copy Share Image
Your mind is a garden, your thoughts are the seeds. You can either grow flowers, or you can grow weeds. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“gardens over. One of them was crying—maybe they both were—and there was a child bawling its head off,” — Paula Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it’s time to stop growing flowers in bone cages. — Flowers in Bone Cages, Sophie Glynn” — Sophie Glynn Copy Share Image
Algae is the perfect food plant. It doubles cell mass every twelve hours, depending on the strain. — Homaro Cantu Copy Share Image
“Small pleasures must correct great tragedies, therefore of gardens in the midst of war I bold tell.” — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full… — Francis Cabot Lowell Copy Share Image
Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile. — George Sand Copy Share Image
I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Now I understand why you grow so many flowers." She shifted her head, not understanding. I said, "To cover the stink of… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Trees are the largest and most spiritually advanced plants on Earth. They are constantly in meditation. Subtle energy is their natural language. — Mantak Chia Copy Share Image
“Gardens are poems Where you stroll with your hands in your pockets. (Les jardins sont des poemes Ou l'on se promene les… — Pierre Albert-Birot Copy Share Image
“They are like to plants that have grown around each other- they strangle and squeeze and support at the same time.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Reaching out and touching hearts is what flowers are all about - a caring, responsive gift with a lasting impact. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As an environmental scientist, I think our first need is to feed and shelter and nurture. That has always required the exploitation… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
Men have dominated the field of landscape photography just as they have dominated the land itself. Thus shooting a virgin landscape has… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
