#garden

I handed my tools. The two of them reached down to help me out of the crater I'd dug. ''Isn't that a little deep?'' Yoda asked. ''It'll help the roots get established,'' I explained. ''Established where? China? ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#digging #garden #humor #humor

And then I wonder, does my brother think of me this way? We entered this world together, one after the other, beats in a pulse. But I will be first to leave it. That's what I've been promised. When we were children, did he dare to imagine an empty space beside him where I then stood giggling, blowing soap bubbles through my fingers? When I die, will he be sorry that he loved me? Sorry that we were twins? Maybe he already is. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#fever #lauren-destefano #imagination

I should not have loved my daughter as I did. Not in this world in which nothing lives for long. You children are flies. You are roses. You multiply and die. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#fever #lauren-destefano #love

We've got a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden - a luxury, I know, but it's one of the best investments I've ever made. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#ever #garden #got #i #investments

When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#flowering #garden #heart #i #pass

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors. ↗

— Oscar de la Renta

#another #colors #creating #form #how

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy. ↗

— Lope de Vega

#dozen #envy #few #flowers #garden

Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#appeared #arrangement #arts #creative #culmination

My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time. ↗

— Julia Roberts

#bread #butter #did #does #everything

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#after #cannot #devoid #done #either