In water and on land, in trees, shrubs, and creepers-everywhere in the whole universe abides my Beloved. Further, all the various forms… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
Of all trees, I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts,… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
If you cut a shrub back because it's just too big, and it dies, you haven't lost anything but a plant that… — Janet Macunovich Copy Share Image
Every wild apple shrub excites our expectation thus, somewhat as every wild child. It is, perhaps, a prince in disguise. What a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massing under trees an shrubs,… — Katherine Howe Copy Share Image
I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is far better to limit our choice to real permanencies, which do not require staking... and a general mixture throughout of… — Graham Stuart Thomas Copy Share Image
Behold the male beast roaring in the jungle for his mate," said Elphaba. "See how the female beast giggles behind a shrub… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
And then the rose-border. What intensity in those odorous buds of the Bon Silene, making the very spirit bound as though a… — Sarah Smiley Copy Share Image
There's nothing perplexing to me about a leafy shrub evolving out of the big bang, but that the post office exists because… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Critics are a kind of freebooters in the republic of letters--who, like deer, goats and divers other graminivorous animals, gain subsistence by… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour,… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
She what was honour knew, And with obsequious majesty approv'd My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Listen to the sermon preached to you by the flowers, the trees, the shrubs, the sky, and the whole world. Notice how… — Paul of the Cross Copy Share Image
“The size and height of the tree determines how heavily the ground will shake when it falls. The cassava tree falls and… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Coffee has assumed a social meaning that goes far beyond the simple black brew in the cup. The worldwide coffee culture is… — Mark Pendergrast Copy Share Image
There is an herb named in Latine Convolvulus (i.e. with wind), growing among shrubs and bushes, with carrieth a flower not unlike… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Zen is to religion what a Japanese "rock garden" is to a garden. Zen knows no god, no afterlife, no good and… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A wise man in China asked his gardener to plant a shrub. The gardener objected that it only flowered once in a… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant,… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
The ideal garden is one in which a collection of trees, shrubs and plants have been procured and allotted to the best… — Penelope Hobhouse Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to some sort… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get… — Jeffrey Donovan Copy Share Image