Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Boys everywhere. All seven of them plus their dad, running and laughing and shoving each other around on the front lawn, engaged… — Kate Brian Copy Share Image
The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but… — Patrick Carney Copy Share Image
We don't have a lot of churches in America; we have a lot of really nice brick buildings on finely manicured lawns!… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
On the lawn next to the sidewalk a fire ant colony is swarming. The ants are pouring out of a mound nest,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
A peril of the night road is that flecks of dust and streaks of bug blood on the windshield look to me… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Long ago life was clean, sex was bad and obscene, and the rich were so mean. Stately homes for the Lords, croquet… — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
I wander forth this chill December dawn: John Frost and all his elves are out, I see, As busy as the elfin… — Robert Williams Buchanan Copy Share Image
A SWEET disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness : A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The government could take away all the drugs in the world and people would spin around on their lawns until they fell… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
“The average lawn is an interesting beast: people plant it, then douse it with artificial fertilizers and dangerous pesticides to make it… — Michael Braungart Copy Share Image
When a woman extends her hand for you to shake it, then you shake her hand. You do not turn it up… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
Muggles have garden gnomes, too, you know," Harry told Ron as they crossed the lawn. "Yeah, I've seen those things they think… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Bran was stripping her futon down to the bare mattress when she entered her apartment. It was sort of like watching the… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
[About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up. I got… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
Her lawn looks like a meadow, And if she mows the place She leaves the clover standing And the Queen Anne's Lace. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Home would not be home to me without a lawn, and if there are, as I've recently read, twenty-five million home lawns… — Katharine Sergeant Angell White Copy Share Image
Grow the lawn and mow the lawn always keep the TV on, brush your teeth and kill the germs, poison apples, poison… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
I looked at her. my lovely, tall mother with her pretty coil of hair and her hard, bitter mouth. Her veins were… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where… — Karen Allen Copy Share Image