"Have you done your homework?" my mother would ask. "I'll do it later." "You will do it now, young man. I don't… — Lewis Grizzard Copy Share Image
“The greenhouse was made entirely of glass. Its ceiling reached five stories high, tall enough to fit a variety of fruit-bearing trees… — Suzanne Selfors Copy Share Image
Plants, in a state of nature, are always warring with one another, contending for the monopoly of the soil,-the stronger ejecting the… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
(The processes are) doubly ruinous: they impoverish the earth by hastily removing, for the benefit of a few generations, the common resources… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“The Sparrow Sisters' roses still bloomed on New Year's Day, their scent rich and warm even when snow weighted their petals closed.… — Ellen Herrick Copy Share Image
After Hurricane Katrina, many people said that the levees were not as effective as the natural vegetation that had been removed at… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
If there is anything so romantic as that castle-palace-fortress of Monaco I have not seen it. If there is anything more deliciousthan… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They… — William MacNeile Dixon Copy Share Image
Gardening...demands a certain attitude. It is necessary to accept the dynamism of vegetation with serenity. — Gilles Clement Copy Share Image
When the ground was partially bare of snow, and a few warm days had dried its surface somewhat, it was pleasant to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Vegetation is really controlling what happens...whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“Trolls have 5,400 words for rocks and one for vegetation. "Oograah" means everything from moss to giant redwoods. The way trolls see… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The American government has spent a lot of money trying to reclaim, for example, the Everglades, and to allow the natural vegetation… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
By helping to raise man above the level of bestial vegetation, faith contributes in reality to the securing and safeguarding of his… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Of course I prefer to have nature around me, but it doesn't have to be with the exact original vegetation for nostalgic… — Theo Jansen Copy Share Image
History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“Roses climbed the shed, entwined with dark purple clematis, leaves as glossy as satin. There were no thorns. Patience's cupboard was overflowing… — Ellen Herrick Copy Share Image
I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, any more than I would have every acre of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the desert, the two primary elements are stone and water. Stone comes in abundance, exposed by weathering and a lack of… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
