“I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.” WritingValuesNatureCompanyTreeGardenBreakfastDine Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts
“Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel.” NeedsNatureTreeCreationPoetGardenPlantForestsReservedPlant A TreeShovelsForests And TreesPine TreesTree PlantingPlants And TreesInspirational Tree Author:Aldo Leopold
“The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.” MenUseEarthHumanityNatureEnvironmentTreeResourcesGardenEnvironmentalNatural EnvironmentNature And EnvironmentEarth And NatureSustainable LivingMan And NatureBest NatureBeing NaturalGreen TreesChildren And NatureConserving Environment Author:Frank Lloyd Wright
“If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much a garden of flowers as of colours and tones, less an old-fashioned flower garden than a colour garden, so to speak, one that achieves an effect not entirely nature's, because it was planted so that only the flowers with matching colours will bloom at the same time, harmonized in an infinite stretch of blue or pink.” IfsFeelsI CanSpeakNatureAchieveEffectsFlowerGardenInfiniteBlueToneColourSomedayOld FashionedMatchingFlower GardenMonet Author:Marcel Proust
“We have dominated and overruled nature, and from now on the earth is ours, a kitchen garden until we learn to make our own chlorophyll and float it out in the sun inside plastic mebranes. We will build Scarsdale on Mount Everest.” EarthScienceNatureSunLearningGardenKitchenPlasticFloatsEverestMount Everest Author:Lewis Thomas
“Today's gardens have become far more than things of beauty. And today's generation is fast finding out that backyards can be an extremely resourceful and powerful tool in not just providing food for the family but also a brilliant way of connecting children with the natural world.” WorldWayChildrenTodayNatureNaturalPowerfulGenerationsFindingsGardenToolsBrilliantProvidingConnectingNatural WorldBackyardsResourcefulToday's Generation Author:Jamie Durie
“To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes.” HandsBeautifulProcessNatureGardenHand In Hand Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“Give and Take... For to the bee a flower is a fountain if life And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving is a need and an ecstasy.” IfsLoveLifeNeedsGivingNatureFlowerGardenEcstasyReceivingBeesFountainMessengersGiving And ReceivingGive And TakeHoney BeeBees And Honey Author:Khalil Gibran
“Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.” MenFeelsSpiritReligionSpiritualityNatureModernDivineGardenRegardBehaveTyrantsGardeningConquerorModern Man Author:Aldous Huxley