Quote by Bronislaw Malinowski

“Tell me something in your native woodland language.”

— Marta Acosta

“My grandparents... planted their land up with trees, both those native... and exotics which stood in memory of the countries where they had lived.”

— Robert Macfarlane

“Different languages, different food, different customs. That's our neighborhood: wild and tangled and colorful. Like the best kind of garden.”

— Katherine Applegate

“Don't tell me you've been harboring secret fantasies about the farm laborers.' 'Of course not,' she said, 'although...' There was no way he was…

— Julia Quinn

“She smelled like gardenias. Plus something muskier, gardenias with carnal knowledge.”

— Rainbow Rowell

“But what we did is we studied our town. We did an inventory of all of the things that were present there—farms and marshes…

— Krista Tippett

“And you know, it was like I was breathing my own self back into me to say these word,s to remember that these things…

— Elizabeth Wein

“Usually you just walk and walk among people who are not of your tribe, and then suddenly, there you are, in a place that…

— Deb Caletti

“So green this summer and so fresh. There are white and gold daisies among the grass in front of an old wire fence, a…

— Robert M. Pirsig

“And the greatest pity that the obscure lgala language is a borrowed and stolen mixture of the WaZoBia.”

— S. A. David

“I'll tell you a story, far, far from here where blades of grass are fluent in sentient knowledge and trees are a mandala of…

— Carolyn Riker

“I taught Leah how to tell where we were in the Campo by using her sense of smell. The south side was glazed with…

— Pat Conroy