Shrubs Quotes
25 quotes by 21 authors
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I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that…
— Maria Edgeworth
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My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups…
— Russell Page
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Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of…
— Bernard Berenson
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Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton court; baseball diamond;…
— Katharine Sergeant Angell White
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Eradication of this unquenchable shrub [tamarisk] will save water, lower salinity levels and create a more congenial habitat for the Southwest Willow Flycatcher and a…
— Wayne Allard
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In water and on land, in trees, shrubs, and creepers-everywhere in the whole universe abides my Beloved. Further, all the various forms and modes of…
— Anandamayi Ma
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However small your garden, you must provide for two of the serious gardener's necessities, a tool shed and a compost heap. A wire bin takes…
— Ann Scott
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Listen to the sermon preached to you by the flowers, the trees, the shrubs, the sky, and the whole world. Notice how they preach to…
— Paul of the Cross
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She what was honour knew, And with obsequious majesty approv'd My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn; all…
— John Milton
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When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to some sort of contact with…
— Saint Augustine
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It is only necessary that man should start a fence that Nature should carry it on and complete it. The farmer cannot plow quite up…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I see in many places little barberry bushes just come up densely in the cow-dung, like young apple trees, the berries having been eaten by…
— Henry David Thoreau
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What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs,…
— Jeffrey Donovan
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A wise man in China asked his gardener to plant a shrub. The gardener objected that it only flowered once in a hundred years. "In…
— John Charles Polanyi
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The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and…
— William Cowper
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If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade…
— Teresa of Avila
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The nature of the place...whether high or low, moist or dry, whether sloping north or south, or bearing tall trees or low shrubs...generally gives hint…
— John James Audubon
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She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massing under trees an shrubs, pouring out from…
— Katherine Howe
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Lyon knew she wasn't aware she was being watched, either. She wouldn't have eaten the leaf otherwise, or reached for another. “Sir, which one is…
— Julie Garwood
Who Wrote These Shrubs Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 25 Shrubs Quotes as follows: