A Georgia peach, a real Georgia peach, a backyard great-grandmother's orchard peach, is as thickly furred as a sweater, and so fluent… — Melissa Fay Greene Copy Share Image
Snowstorms may yet whiten fields and gardens, high winds may howl about the trees and chimneys, but the little blue heralds persistently… — Neltje Blanchan Copy Share Image
Government protection should be thrown around every wild grove and forest on the mountains, as it is around every private orchard, and… — John Muir Copy Share Image
One particular spark was when I went back to my favorite spot in the mountains where my father always used to take… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences, whether we consider its subjects as furnishing the principal subsistence of life to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“In her orchard the trees had been born from deaths; they marked and grew from the remains of the children that passed… — Nadifa Mohamed Copy Share Image
Hark, I hear a robin calling! List, the wind is from the south! And the orchard-bloom is falling Sweet as kisses on… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
The soul grows into lovely habits as easily as into ugly ones, and the moment a life begins to blossom into beautiful… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
Is there any sign of spring quite so welcome as the glint of the first bluebird unless it is his softly whistled… — Neltje Blanchan Copy Share Image
Why, friends, you go to do you know not what: Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves? Alas, you know not: I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“When we neared the orchard a flock of birds lit from its outer rows. They hadn't been there long. The branches shook… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I work hard in the orchard, not for the money anymore, but for something I can't explain. Something worth more than money. — Steven Herrick Copy Share Image
You would not go into an apple orchard and eat the weeds so why would you go into your day and feast… — Pat McBride Copy Share Image
I love my sons and I love that they are writers - I also love my daughter, who's a minister and an… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Do you remember the Shire, Mr. Frodo? It'll be spring soon. And the orchards will be in blossom. And the birds will… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Anyone who has a garden, park or orchard tree has an opportunity to ensure that it offers protection, brings beauty and bears… — Gabriel Hemery Copy Share Image
The nostalgic notion of the family orchards is lovely - all that wholesome fruit for our forebears to sit on the back… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees,… — Wendell Berry 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
An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture, like a gold mine, or a river, to a citizen; but to a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Snub end of a dismal year, deep in the dwarf orchard, The sky with its undercoat of blackwash and point stars, I… — Charles Wright Copy Share Image
Dull indeed would be the man that did not feel the thrill awakened by the first glimpse of brilliant color in the… — Arthur Cleveland Bent Copy Share Image
For a few brief days the orchards are white with blossoms. They soon turn to fruit, or else float away, useless and… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
I envision a day when every city and town has front and back yards, community gardens and growing spaces, nurtured into life… — Greg Peterson Copy Share Image
What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Brambles, in particular, protect and nourish young fruit trees, and on farms bramble clumps (blackberry or one of its related cultivars) can… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem… — Fernando de Rojas Copy Share Image
He Looked and smelt like Autumn's very brother, his face being sunburnt to wheat-colour, his eyes blue as corn-flowers, his sleeves and… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable and finally has come to look and not to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Now's the time when children's noses All become as red as roses And the colour of their faces Makes me think of… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
The Universe is a pretty big place... And the one thing I know about nature is it hates to waste anything. So… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Surely it's better to live in the country, to live on a prairie by a drawing of rivers, in Iowa or Illinois… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
The Bible says the fruit of the spirit is longsuffering. I'll tell you one thing about fruit: you will never see a… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
“Under an orchard tree, dropping with cherries, cowgirls lay in the shade. They fed each other fruit. Dark juice dribbled into dimples.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
