“HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals and plants; none of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall be hidden from them.” HumansChildrenHuman BeingsAnimalColorPlantAncestor Book:The Temple of My Familiar Source: The Temple of My Familiar
“Green, the color of growth, or surgent life, enwraps the land. New green, still as individual as the plants themselves. Cool green, which will merge as the weeks pass, the Summer comes, into a canopy of shade of busy chlorophyll.” StillsIndividualGrowthWeekLandColorSummerGreenPlantBusyShadeCanopy Author:Hal Borland
“Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants growing into one flower and sowing itself over the world in shapes of beauty and color, which differ with the soil that receives and the sun that ripens the seed. In Persia, it comes up the rose of Hafiz; in England, the many-blossomed tree of Shakespeare.” WorldPoetryLiteratureSunGrowingTreeColorFlowerHonorShapesDeserveEnglandRosePlantCome UpSeedsSoilOffspringSowingEldestPersiaFruitfulnessHafizPlants Growing Author:Robert Aris Willmott
“I'm working hard to have a good life. You don't need fancy things to feel good. You can hug a puppy. You can buy a can of paint and surround yourself with color. You can plant a flower and watch it grow. You can decide to trust people, the right people. You can decide to start over and let other people start over, too.” PeopleNeedsFeelsHardGrowsWatchesColorFlowerPlantPaintFeel GoodFancySurroundGood LifeHugStarting OverPuppySurround YourselfFancy Things Author:Joan Bauer
“Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures.” TwoStrongColorPaintingShapesPlantDrawingSculpture Author:Ellsworth Kelly
“A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.” ArtistColorShapesOrdinaryGardenPlantIntentionComplexesLandscapeUnusualAestheticGardeningPlasticVolumeDoomedTrue HappinessDisappearance Author:Roberto Burle Marx