“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