Gardening Quote by Scott Westerfeld

“Orchids are one of the few things in the world that can live forever.”

— Susan Orlean

“In her mind, the orchid was still screaming.”

— Joe Schreiber

“Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation. That has always been part of its charm, Laroche loved orchids, but I came to believe he loved…

— Susan Orlean

“The men had gnawed through the daisy trees until, wild-eyed and yelling, they broke in two and hit the ground. In the huge silence…

— Toni Morrison

“If all of this makes orchids seem smart—well, they do seem smart. There is something clever and un-plantlike about their determination to survive and…

— Susan Orlean

“Scatter as a prayer escaping my lips... as orchids blooming in clouds.”

— Sanober Khan

“Her eyes were as hard and bright as stars. Not the pretty sort that poets mooned about, but the kind that made men's destinies.…

— Lauren Willig

“It seemed to her that certain parts of the world must produce happiness as they produced peculiar plants which will flourish nowhere else.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“I would need … daisy love, you know, pretty love, sweet love that nonetheless was ubiquitous in roadside ditches in the summertime, and instead…

— Mary Ann Rivers

“But she was inside the wonderful garden, and she could come through the door under the ivy any time, and she felt as if…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“To desire orchids is to have a desire that will never be, can never be, fully requited. A collector who wants one of every…

— Susan Orlean

“Despairing of human relationships (people were so difficult), she often went into her garden and got from her flowers a peace which men and…

— Virginia Woolf