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“Fall is not the end of the gardening year; it is the start of next year's growing season. The mulch you lay down will protect your perennial plants during the winter and feed the soil as it decays, while the cleaned up flower bed will give you a huge head start on either planting seeds or setting out small plants.”

Giving Years Ends Fall Next Growing Flower Huge Bed Protect Seasons Lays Plant Winter Seeds Setting Settings Soil Gardening Decay Next Year October Head Start Planting Seeds

Book:The Gardening Year

Source: The Gardening Year

“We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!" Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast! What man can look on Death unterrified?”

Men Looks Faith Fall Wise Flower Casts Vain Butterfly Cried Blast

Author:Richard Watson Gilder

“True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.”

Fall Flower Glory Roots Strikes Lasting Pretension

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease, After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.”

Men Long Fall Animal Tree He Man Flower Solitude Speech Understood Rain Tongue Ease Perceive Rejoice Herbs Drought Shrubs

Book:The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc

Source: The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc

“You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.”

Ifs Way Giving Doe Enough Moments Helping Might Form Fall Girl Grows Growth Sun Air Flower Fairs Dust Decay Hammers Fetters Narcissus

Book:Essays and Letters Selected from the Writings of John Ruskin

Source: Essays and Letters Selected from the Writings of John Ruskin

“In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.”

Fall Sweet Flower Spring Roots March Showers Veins April Liquor Pierce Drought

Book:The Canterbury tales

Source: The Canterbury tales

“With Wordsworth, indeed, the light of revelation did not fall upon human beings so unbrokenly as upon the face of the earth. He knew the birds of the countryside better than the old men, and the flowers far better than the children.”

Men Humans Children Light Earth Faces Fall Human Beings Flower Bird Revelations Old Man Countryside Wordsworth

Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“Two years ago, I was saying as I planted seeds in the garden, "I must believe in these seeds, that they fall into the earth and grow into flowers and radishes and beans." It is a miracle to me because I do not understand it. The very fact that they use glib technical phrases does not make it any less a miracle, and a miracle we all accept. Then why not accept God's miracles?”

Years Believe Doe Two Facts Use Earth Fall Grows Accepting Flower Years Ago Garden Miracle Plant Seeds Phrases Two Years Why Not Beans Two Years Ago Radishes

Author:Dorothy Day

“Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.”

Children Fall Imagination Walks Flower Sight Praise Knees Praise God Gravel

Book:The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Source: The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

“Through all history, from the beginning, a noble army of martyrs have fought fiercely and fallen bravely for that unseen mistress, their country. So, through all history, to the end, as long as men believe in God that army must still march and fall, recruited only from the flower of mankind, cheered only by their own hope of humanity, strong only in the confidence of their cause.”

Source: Orations and Addresses of George William Curtis: On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891

“When a sudden ray of sun or a moonbeam falls on a dreary street, it makes no difference what it illumines-a broken bottle on the ground, a fading flower in a field, or the flaxen blonde hair of a child's head. The object is transformed and the viewer is transfixed. Celebrate that moment of beauty and take it with you in your memory. It is God's gift to you.”

“[This world] exists nonnecessarily, improbably, and causelessly. It exists for absolutely no reason at all. It is inexplicably and stunningly actual . . . The impact of this captivated realisation upon me is overwhelming. I am completely stunned. I take a few dazed steps in the dark meadow, and fall among the flowers. I lie stupefied, whirling without comprehension in this world through numberless worlds other than this one.”

World Reason Lying Religion Fall Dark Steps This World Flower Impact No Reason Overwhelming Comprehension Meadows Realisation Stunned Captivated Dazed

Author:Quentin Smith

“Noiseless falls the foot of time That only treads on flowers.”

Time Fall Feet Flower

Author:Herbert Spencer

“Time in China has no immediacy as in America. Here I find the swift passage of our few earthly years accepted as naturally as the fall of flower and leaf. ... I hear and speak a language in which grammar has no tense. Both scholars and illiterates, in ordinary daily speech, tell an event of centuries ago as casually as an incident of the hour. Only as my knowledge has accumulated have I been able to know whether something related happened just then or in some past dynasty.”

Knows Years Able America Past Time Fall Speak Language Hours Happened Century Events Flower Speech Ordinary China Accepted Related Passages Scholar Leafs Grammar Incidents Tense Dynasty Immediacy

Author:Nora Waln

“In some countries Women's Day is a national holiday and men give women flowers. In America Women's Day falls on another holiday, Mardi Gras, where men give women beads in the respectful and post-feminist desire to see their naked boobies.”

Men Giving Country America Desire Fall Flower Feminist Naked Posts Holiday Respectful Beads Mardi Gras

Author:Craig Ferguson

“O Prosperina, For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's wagon; daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength--a malady Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one.”

Kind Eye Dies Fall Wind Flower Breaths Dare All Kinds March Pale Crowns Violet Incidents Lilies Maids Wagons Malady Unmarried Daffodil

Author:William Shakespeare

“Life is the blossoming of flowers in the spring, the ripening of fruit in the fall, the rhythm of the earth and of nature. Life is the cry of cicadas signalling the end of summer, migratory birds winging south in a transparent autumn sky, fish frolicking in a stream. Life is the joy beautiful music installs in us, the thrilling sight of a mountain peak reddened by the rising sun, the myriad combinations and permutations of visible and invisible phenomena. Life is all things.”

“A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it....In this way our life should be understood. Then there is no problem.”

Way Love Life Should Problem Fall Grows Our Lives Flower Understood Love Life Weed No Problem

Author:Shunryu Suzuki