Appearance Quote by Solomon Northup

Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the…

— Janet Fitch

Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape and all…

— Henry David Thoreau

Winter's palette is clear and spare, restrictive enough to curb the excesses of even the most daring gardeners.

— Rosemary Verey

The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

— Edward Abbey

However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom.

— Madame de Stael

As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom.

— Katharine Sergeant Angell White

“Good writing is always a breaking of the soil, clearing away prejudices, pulling up of sour weeds of crooked thinking, stripping the turf so…

— Henry Seidel Canby

“Methinks I see the sunset light flooding the river valley, the western hills stretching to the horizon, overhung with trees gorgeous and glowing with…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Can anything compare to the sight of the first yellow violets blooming along a woodland path? These most fragile of plants are yet hardy…

— Howard Evans

There is something of the same pleasure in noticing the hues of the stars that there is in looking at a flower garden in…

— Maria Mitchell

I love the idea of the winter rose that's sort of sleeping underneath the soil. Underneath all the snow is this plant that was…

— Corinne Bailey Rae

Everyone had always told me I had to see alpine flowers, since I was writing about flowers, and I had never seen these. So…

— Martha Ronk