“The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. While I was conducting experiments to make spineless cacti, I often talked to the plants. . . . "You have nothing to fear," I would tell them. "You don't need your defensive thorns. I will protect you." Gradually the useful plant of the desert emerged in a thornless variety.” LoveNeedsSecretProtectPlantExperimentsVarietyDesertThornsBreedingProtect YouConductingScientific KnowledgeCactusSpineless Author:Luther Burbank
“Didn't love, like a plant from India, require a prepared soil, a particular temperature? Sighs in the moonlight, long embraces, tears flowing over hands yielded to a lover, all the fevers of the flesh and the languors of tenderness thus could not be separated from the balconies of great châteaux filled with idle amusements, a boudoir with silk blinds, a good thick carpet, full of pots of flowers, and a bed raised on a dais, nor from the sparkle of precious stones and shoulder knots on servants' livery.” LoveLongHandsTearsParticularFlowerLoversBedStonesIndiaFilledEmbracePlantPreparedRaisedFleshShouldersServantSoilPotThickTendernessIdleSighAmusementCarpetMoonlightTemperatureFeverSilkKnotsSparkleBalconiesPrecious StonesBoudoir Author:Gustave Flaubert
“We had one thing in common - we were in love. But love is just a gift, and it doesn't answer everything and it's like a precious plant that you have to nurture and look after and all that.” LoveLooksPeaceAnswersLove IsCommonOne ThingPlantNurturePeace Love Author:John Lennon
“The Gospel does not require anything good that man must furnish: not a good heart, not a good disposition, no improvement of his condition, no godliness, no love either of God or men…….. It plants love into his heart and makes him capable of all good works. It demands nothing, but it gives all. Should not this fact make us leap for JOY?” MenLoveGivingShouldHeartDoeGodFactsJoyWorkConditionsEffectsDemandCapablePlantImprovementWorking ItLeapGood WorkRequirementsDispositionGodlinessNo LoveGood HeartLutheransHeart Full Of Love Author:C. F. W. Walther
“There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.” LoveLittlesSoulSpiritualityWeekWorshipGardenPlantCornersMy SoulReverenceGardening Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“Gardening is a cooperative affair. I am a part of a neighborhood in which plants, dirt, rocks and a human family participate collectively in a love affair with place.” LoveHumansDesireRocksPlantAffairNeighborhoodGardeningDirtLove AffairCooperativesHuman Family Author:Jim Nollman