Gardening Quote by Edna O'Brien Download Open image ““In the bodily garden the apple lurks.”” — Edna O'Brien ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gardening
“I stand holding the apple in both hands. It feels precious, like a heavy treasure. I lift it up and smell it. It has… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The fruit of the garden is not restricted to what we eat. Every garden lends something more to the imagination - beauty.” — Vigen Guroian Copy Share Image
“The night air moved up towards the Downs, washing over sea and orchard. I breathed it in, and thought that henceforth, loneliness would smell… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
“But I seem to recall that you can rub the outside of an apple until it shines without ever eradicating the worm within.” — Lauren Baratz-Logsted Copy Share Image
“Weeding the peony hedge I hear the windfalls in the orchard; hear them strike the ground, hear them strike against branches as they fall… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“Glad to know the disturbed apple doesn't fall too far from the crazy tree.” — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
“I had stopped my chair at that exact place, coming out, because right there the spice of wisteria that hung around the house was… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“The flesh was weak, but it was not dumb. It had its own animal intelligence. In her husband's bed her body had felt like… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
“A certain king had a beautiful garden, and in the garden stood a tree which bore golden apples.” — Jacob Grimm Copy Share Image
... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
I crossed the room, and what you did was to feel my hair over and over again and in different ways, touch it, with… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“A healer! The beauty of the word a balm. In a mounting astonishment she hears how this man heals with his own blood, pricks… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“If I could feel like myself I’d thank God but I don’t feel and never will.” — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
...people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too,… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“As dreams are the healing songs from the wilderness of our unconscious - So wild animals, wild plants, wild landscapes are the healing dreams… — Dale Pendell Copy Share Image
It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of the people ever really get the word about life,… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing. — Esther Meynell Copy Share Image
My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In… — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
“In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens -- a ruin,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I bet plants go like 'Weeeeeeeee!' whenever they're swallowed by a giraffe. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every plant which my heavenly father has not planted with be uprooted — Jesus Christ Copy Share Image
There was a product on late night TV that you could attach to your garden hose - "You can water your hard-to-reach plants with… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
Plant flowers in others' gardens and your life becomes a bouquet! Submitted by Lisa Letto, Coordinator, Nutrition Resource and Volunteer Centre, College of Pharmacy… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“A flower needs the rain to grow just as much as it needs the sunshine.” — Teresa Mummert Copy Share Image
