Quote by Geraldine Brooks

“Be the cactus, a proof of unsubmission, and blossom amidst the fiercest environment.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Well what I was going to say was that it reminds me of us because a cactus can grow and thrive without a lot…

— Rebecca Bloom

“She’d been surprised to learn it had a semi-arid climate, with cactus plants growing right beside palm trees.”

— Bettye Griffin

“with a moral compass fixed permanently on diabolical. He was an emotional cripple with the personality of a cactus. He understood his faults and…

— Francette Phal

“For him I was like the land, something to care for...well, he loved to make things grow. But he resembled the land more than…

— Bruce-Novoa

“Looking at these pictures, I wonder, did that part of me that flourished around him, like prized perennials under a tender gardener's care, die…

— Lisa Schroeder

“He had been here before, lots of times. He'd grown up with this recurring dream forest. Its roots were tangled in his veins.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“He'd grown unused to woods like this. He'd become accustomed to the Northwest, evergreen and shaded dark. Here he was surrounded by soft leaves,…

— Michael Montoure

“But then he would come home...and he would feel a strange sensation, like his feet growing heavy. It was as if he was sinking…

— Sarah Addison Allen

“They were his environment, these men, and they were moulding the clay of him into a more ferocious thing than had been intended by…

— Jack London

“It grows because you plant it.”

— Hiromi Kawakami

“Like the trees, his roots went deep, and I daydreamed that if he wrapped me in his arms, he could safely tuck me away…

— Colleen Houck