QUOTES ABOUT FLOWERS:
“Earth laughs in flowers.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Flowers…are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.”
~Tennessee Williams
“A flower’s appeal is in its contradictions – so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect.”
~Adabella Radici
“Just living is not enough…One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”
~Hans Christian Anderson
“Flowers are the poetry of the earth, as stars are the poetry of heaven.”
“As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with them, and adoring them as if they were human beings. Much laughter I provoke among my friends by so doing, but that is of no consequence. We are on such good terms, my flowers and I.”
~Celia Thaxter
“The seed is hope; the flower is joy.”
“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine for the soul.”
~Luther Burbank
“You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.”
~Walter Hagen
“Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.”
~Francis Cabot Lowell
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
~Henri Matisse
“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.”
~Theodore Roethk
“Flowers are happy things.”
~P.G. Wodehouse
“Where flowers bloom, so does hope.”
~Lady Bird Johnson
“Each flower is a soul opening out to nature.”
~Gerald De Nerval
“Flowers are love’s truest language.”
~Park Benjamin
“It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.”
~William Carlos Williams
“What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not our stars the flowers of heaven.”
~A.J. Balfour
“No one can have a healthy love for flowers unless he loves the wild ones.”
~Forbes Watson
“We can complain because
rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
~Abraham Lincoln
“One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.”
~Henry David Thoreau
“In silence it falls away;
Yet here now, at this moment, at this place,
The world of the flower, the whole of
the world is blooming.
This is the talk of the flower, the truth
of the blossom:
The glory of eternal life is fully shining here.”
~Zenkei Shibayama
“A rose is a rose is a rose.”
~Gertrude Stein
“All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.”
~Indian Proverb
“In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.”
~Kozuko Okakura
“The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand.”
~Francis Bacon
“Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.”
~Henry Ward Beecher
“To create a little flower is the labor of ages.”
~William Blake
“Hope’s gentle gem, the sweet forget-me-not.”
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“I alwyas think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.”
~George Eliot
“I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left.”
~George Eliot
“Flowers are the beautifukl hieroglyphics of nature, with which she indicates how much she loves us.”
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The opening and the folding flowers, that laugh to the summer’s day.”
~Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans
“I may not to the world impart
The secret of its power,
But treasured in my inmost heart
I keep my faded flower.”
~Ellen C. Howarth
“He is happiest who hath power to gain wisdom from a flower.”
~Mary Howitt
“The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days.”
~Archbishop Robert Leighton
“These stars of earth, these golden flowers.”
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Sweet flowers alone can say what passion fears revealing.”
~Thomas Moore
“Flowers preach to us if we will hear.”
~Christina Georgina Rossetti
“And the spring arose on the garden fair like the spirit of love felt everywhere.”
~Percy Bysshe Shelley
“The flower of the sweetest smell is shy and lowly.”
~William Wordsworth
“I love to smell the flowers in the dark…You get ahold of their soul then.”
~Lucy Maud Montgomery
“Flowers grow out of dark moments.”
~Corita Kent
“He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.”
~Persian Proverb
“Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.”
~John Ruskin
“A flower that has not bloomed…has not lived.”
~David Uthera
“Stretching up his hand to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.”
~Jeremy Bentham
“Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.”
~Sigmund Freud
“The silence of a flower; a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams.”
~Lewis Thompson
“Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
~Rabindranath Tagore
“Will is the root, knowledge is the stem and leaves, and feeling is the flower.”
~Sterling
“Life is like a rose…More exquisite and precious, when shared with others.”
~Jane Oechsle Lauer
“There is life in the ground: When it is stirred up, it goies into the man who stirs it.”
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
~Albert Camus
“So plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”
“You don’t need to know anything about a plant to know that it is beautiful.”
~Montagu Don
“Plants are like people: they’re all different and a little bit strange.”
~John Kehoe
“A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.”
~William Carlos Williams
