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"Earth laughs in flowers" Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck"
Emma Goldman
"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into"
Henry Beecher
"Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity" John Ruskin
"Flowers really do intoxicate me!"
Vita Sackville-West
"Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature"
Gerard de Nerval
"Bread feeds the body, indeed,
but flowers feed also the soul" The Koran
"When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one and a lily with the other" Chinese proverb
"Flowers whisper beauty to the world even as they fade, wilt, and fall" Dr Sun Wolf
"The poet's darling"
William Wordsworth
"Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers" Morris Maeterlinck
"Perfect Love"
Anon
"Inspiration" Anon
Pluck not the wayside flower; It is the traveller's dower.
William Allingham
"A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring" William Carlos Williams
I like to think a flower opens
itself to outgrow its plantedness. That it yearns to be carried away. Anon
"The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days"
Robert Leighton
"I will be the gladest thing
Under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one."
Edna St Vincent Millay
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers
Claude Monet
"Tis my faith that
every flower enjoys the air it breathes" William Wordsworth
"Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair"
Susan Polis Shutz
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"Flowers are a proud assertion
that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world" Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Perfumes are the
feeling of flowers"
Heinrich Heine
"Flowers are without hope.
Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow"
Antonio Porchia
"To be overcome by the fragrance of
flowers is a delectable form of defeat"
Beverley Nichols
"Give me odorous at sunrise a garden
of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed" Walt Whitman
"The flower is the poetry of
reproduction. It is an example of external seductiveness of life" Jean Giraudoux
"How can one help shivering with delight
when one's hot fingers close around the stem of a live flower, cool from the shade and stiff with newborn vigor" Colette
"There is that
in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords"
John Muir
“If you’ve never been thrilled to
the very edges of your soul by a
flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom”
Terri Guillemets
“Summer set lip to earth’s bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there”. Francis Thompson
“Flowers are those little colorful
beacons of the sun from which we get sunshine when dark, somber skies blanket our thoughts.� Dodinsky
“God loved the flowers and
invented soil. Man loved the flowers and invented vases.� Jacques Deval
“The sunlight in the forest.� Chinese proverb
“The flower offered of itself
And eloquently spoke of Gods
In languages of rainbows, perfumes and secret silence.” Phillip Pulfrey
“For myself I hold no
preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses!� Edward Abbey
"Flowers have an
expression of countenance. Some seem to smile, some have a sad
expression, some are pensive and diffident: others again are plain, honest and upright.�Henry Ward Beecher
“The flowers of late winter and
early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.� Gertrude S. Wister
“People from a planet without
flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.� Iris Murdoch
“Simply the best.”
Anon
“Break open a cherry tree and
there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.� Ikkyu Sojun
“Earth laughs in flowers.” Henry David Thoreau
“Happiness
is to hold flowers in both hands.� Japanese proverb
“Be like the flower,
turn your faces to the sun.�
Kahlil Gibran
“We have
much to hope from the flowers.” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“All the flowers of all the
tomorrows are in the seeds of today.� Indian proverb
“Flowers
are love’s truest language.” Park Benjamin
“Flowers
are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.” Sigmund Freud
“There are always flowers for
those that want to see them.� Henri Matisse
“Let us
open our leaves like a flower and be passive and receptive.� John Keats
“Flowers are
our greatest silent friends.”
Jim Brown.
"Little flower, but if I could
understand what you are, root and all in all, I should know what God and man is." Tennyson