“The earth laughs in flowers.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful. ~Jim Carrey
“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
“Flowers rewrite soil, water, and sunshine into petal’d poetry.” ~Terri Guillemets, “The graceful and beauteous,” 1988
“The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.” ~Jean Giraudoux
“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.” ~Tennessee Williams
“I will be the gladdest thing Under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one.” ~Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Afternoon on a Hill”
“Flowers are the music of the ground, From earth’s lips spoken without sound.” ~ Edwin Curran
“Flowers whisper “Beauty!” to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall.” ~Dr. SunWolf,
The lovely flowers embarrass me, They make me regret I am not a bee – ~Emily Dickinson, 1864
“Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.” ~ Georges Bernanos
“…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?” ~ Vincent van Gogh
“The flower offered of itself And eloquently spoke Of Gods In languages of rainbows Perfumes And secret silence…” ~Phillip Pulfrey
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