Flower Quotes - Page 16

• We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Special, Able, Different

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• When the flower opens, the bees will come.

  Kabir

  Bees

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• Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale gessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well attir'd woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.

  John Milton

  Lying, Glowing, White

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 142

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• Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.

  Florence Nightingale

  Children, Fall, Sight

  Florence Nightingale (2008). “The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”

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• Insofar as human beings flower on the ground of freedom, justice guards that ground. Insofar as human beings flower in the soil of community, justice tends that soil. Justice makes possible a social order that people can truly be said to share freely.

  Jeffrey H Reiman

  Wisdom, Order, People

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• I remember passing through New York in college and thinking, Im going to come back here. The energy just made me think of Europe - everyone walking, seeing the delis and flowers outside. It just felt very familiar. I loved it right away.

  Stephanie Szostak

  New York, College, Thinking

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• The scenery, when it is truly seen, reacts on the life of the seer. How to live. How to get the most of life.... How to extract its honey from the flower of the world.

  Henry David Thoreau

  World, Honey, Scenery

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.77, New York Review of Books

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• My words are little jars For you to take and put upon a shelf. Their shapes are quaint and beautiful, And they have many pleasant colours and lustres To recommend them. Also the scent from them fills the room With sweetness of flowers and crushed grasses.

  Amy Lowell

  Beautiful, Scent, Shapes

  Amy Lowell (2009). “Sword Blades and Poppy Seed”, p.57, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.

  John Milton

  Fading

  'On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough' (1673) st. 1

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• When Nature gives a gorgeous rose, Or yields the simplest fern, She writes this motto on the leaves, "To whom it may concern!" And so it is the poet comes And revels in her bowers, And, though another hold the land, Is owner of the flowers.

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Writing, Yield, Land

  John Godfrey Saxe (1872). “The Poems: Complete in One Volume”, p.4

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• Orchids manufacture their intricate devices from the common components of ordinary flowers, parts usually fitted for very different functions. If God had designed a beautiful machine to reflect his wisdom and power, surely he would not have used a collection of parts generally fashioned for other purposes. Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components. Thus, they must have evolved from ordinary flowers.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Beautiful, Orchids, Atheism

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company

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• But flowers feed our soul in a different way. They remind us of a God who creates beautiful things and takes notice of the tiniest detail

  Tricia Goyer

  Beautiful, Soul, Details

  FaceBook post by Tricia Goyer from Dec 02, 2014

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• You need to turn your room into a place of power. It's a good idea to have flowers around, candles, incense, you know, happy things. Make your room into a beautiful place and keep it impeccably clean.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Ideas, Incense

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• When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.

  Gautama Buddha

  Water, Pluck

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• The spring is already here with her hands full of flowers.

  Fanny Kemble

  Spring, Hands

  Fanny Kemble (1863). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.144

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• Love lives with Nature, not with lust. Go find her in the flowers.

  John Clare

  Love Life, Lust

  John Clare (1949). “Poems of John Clare's madness”

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• Oh, call my brother back to me!I cannot play alone:The summer comes with flower and bee,-Where is my brother gone?

  Felicia Hemans

  Summer, Brother, Grief

  Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans (1836). “The Poetical Works of Mrs. Felicia Hemans: Complete in One Volume”, p.384

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• Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.

  Amy Lowell

  Butterfly, Wings, Hours

  Amy Lowell (2009). “A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass”, p.19, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The groom is like a flower of gold. When he walks, blossoms at his feet unfold.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Feet, Gold, Walks

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• Plant the seed of positivity into your mind, nourish it daily with love and happiness will flower, as fear begins to die.

  Leon Brown

  Beautiful, Positivity, Mind

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• Who would have thought it possible that a tiny flower could preoccupy a person so completely that there simply wasn't room for any other thought.

  Sophie Scholl

  Garden, Rooms, Tiny

  Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl (1987). “At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl”, Harpercollins

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• In the garden of literature, the highest and the most charismatic flowers are always the quotations.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Garden, Literature, Charismatic

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• Only bugs can truly appreciate the beauty of flowers.

  Dov Davidoff

  Appreciate, Bugs

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• I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me.

  Helen Keller

  Miracle, Texture, Remarkable

  "Three Days to See". Atlantic Monthly, January, 1933.

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• No one knows the colour of a flower
  till it is broken.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Knowledge, Broken, Colour

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.381, New Directions Publishing

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