In the rain forest, no niche lies unused. No emptiness goes unfilled. No gasp of sunlight goes untrapped. In a million vest pockets, a million life-forms quietly tick. No other place on earth feels so lush. Sometimes we picture it as an echo of the original Garden of Eden—a realm ancient, serene, and fertile, where … Continue reading Quote for Today: Diane Ackerman
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Quote for Today: Naomi Long Madgett
I wouldn't coax the plant if I were you. Such watchful nursing may do it harm. Let the soil rest from so much digging And wait until it's dry before you water it. The leaf's inclined to find its own direction; Give it a chance to seek the sunlight for itself. Much growth is stunted … Continue reading Quote for Today: Naomi Long Madgett
Quote for Today: Clarissa Pinkola Estés
And then there are the cravings.. Oh, la! A woman may crave to be near water, or be belly down, her face in the earth, smelling the wild smell. She might have to drive into the wind. She may have to plant something, pull things out of the ground or put them into the ground. … Continue reading Quote for Today: Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Quote for Today: Helen Humphreys
What I've always found interesting in gardens is looking at what people choose to plant there. What they put in. What they leave out. One small choice and then another, and soon there is a mood, an atmosphere, a series of limitations, a world. -Helen Humphreys, The Lost Garden
Quote for Today: Jean Arp
Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb. --Jean Arp
Quote for Today: Countee Cullen
From the Dark Tower We shall not always plant while others reap The golden increment of bursting fruit, Not always countenance, abject and mute, That lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; Not everlastingly while others sleep Shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, Not always bend to some more subtle brute; We were … Continue reading Quote for Today: Countee Cullen
