#garden

President Obama has expressed his commitment to responsible stewardship of our land, water, and other natural resources. And one way of restoring the land to its natural condition is what we are doing here today - breaking pavement for the People's Garden. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#commitment #condition #doing #expressed #garden

Use plants to bring life. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#bring #life #plants #use

By bringing a soulful consciousness to gardening sacred space can be created outdoors. ↗

— S. Kelley Harrell

#sacred-space #spirituality #nature

He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up. ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#barrie #children #grown-up-poetry #kesnington-gardens #london

Often I'll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there's no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the energy of the mountains and of the trees. ↗

— Andy Couturier

#community #environmentalism #gardening #green #japan

Ben Adaephon Delat," Pearl said plaintively, "see the last who comes. You send me to my death." "I know," Quick Ben whispered. "Flee, then. I will hold them enough to ensure your escape no more." Quick Ben sank down past the roof. Before he passed from sight Pearl spoke again. "Ben Adaephon Delat, do you pity me?" "Yes" he replied softly, then pivoted and dropped down into darkness. ↗

— Steven Erikson

#malazan #of-the-moon #steven-erikson #death

I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids. ↗

— Beau Bridges

#flowers #garden #grow #i #like

Eventually my goal is get a place in Ojai where I can have animals and a big garden. Just drink wine all day and hang in my garden. ↗

— Michelle Branch

#big #day #drink #eventually #garden

No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience. ↗

— J. Carter Brown

#crunch #experience #garden #give #hear

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#about #blooming #dreaming #enjoying #garden