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Flowers in a Bouquet A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar. Its smell reminds us in vestigial ways of fertility, vigor, life-force, all the optimism, expectancy, and passionate bloom of youth. We inhale its ardent aroma and, no matter what our ages, we feel young and nubile in a world aflame with desire. - Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses, 1990, p. 13 I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. - Emma Goldman I know of no other genus whose plants flower out-of-doors every day of the year. I know of no other genus with one or more species coming into bloom or growth, Where flowers bloom so does hope. - Lady Bird Johnson Each flower is a soul opening out to nature. - Gerald De Nerval The world is a rose; smell it and pass it to your friends. - Persian Proverb When bright flowers bloom, parchment crumbles, my words fade, the pen has dropped... - Morpheus Are we, finally, speaking of nature or culture when we speak of a rose (nature), that has been bred (culture) so that its blossoms (nature) make men imagine (culture) the sex of women (nature)? Flowers are love's truest language. - Park Benjamin The Earth Laughs in Flowers - Ralph Waldo Emerson To pick a flower is so much more satisfying than just observing it, or photographing it...So in later years, I have grown in my garden as many flowers as possible for children to pick. - Anne Scott-James I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one. - Edna St. Vincent Millay Belladonna: In Italian, a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. - Ambrose Bierce They are not long, the days of wine and roses: Out of a misty dream, Our path emerges for a while, then closes Within a dream. - Ernest Dowson There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. - Anais Nin Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. - Henry Ward Beecher, Life Thoughts What's in a Name? That which we call a Rose. By any other name would smell as Sweet. - Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet What grows in the garden, so lovely and rare? Roses and Dahlias and people grow there. - From the TV show A Gardener's Diary 
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits. - William Carlos Williams If you pass by the color purple in a field and don't notice it, God gets real pissed off. - Alice Walker I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus. - Charles Kuralt Who can estimate the elevating and refining influences and moral value of flowers with all their graceful forms, bewitching shades and combinations of colors and exquisitely varied perfumes? These silent influences are unconsciously felt even by those who do not appreciate them consciously and thus with better and still better fruits, nuts, grains, vegetables and flowers, will the earth be transformed, man's thought refined, and turned from the base destructive forces into nobler production. One which will lift him to high planes of action toward the happy day when the Creator of all this beautiful work is more acknowledged and loved, and where man shall offer his brother man, not bullets and bayonets, but richer grains, better fruit and fairer flowers from the bounty of this earth. - Father George Schoener (1864 -1941), The Importance and Fundamental Principles of Plant Breeding Take time to smell the roses. - Gardening Cliches For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! Observe this dew-drenched rose of Tyrian gardens. A rose today. But you will ask in vain tomorrow what it is; and yesterday It was the dust, the sunshine, and the rains. - Christina Rosetti Since Iris is the Greek goddess for the Messenger of Love, her sacred flower is considered the symbol of communication and messages. Greek men would often plant an iris on the graves of their beloved women as a tribute to the goddess Iris, whose duty it was to take the souls of women to the Elysian fields. - Hana No Monogatari: The Stories of Flowers The actual flowers are the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight. In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings, stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, with many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love, with every leaf a miracle - and from this bush in the dooryard, with delicate-color'd blossoms and heart-shaped leaves of rich green, a sprig with its flower I break. - Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1865 If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad. - John Lancaster Spalding, Aphorisms and Reflections 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 the heaven? - A.J. Balfour Forsythia is pure joy. There is not an ounce, not a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia. Pure, undiluted, untouched joy. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy. - Lope de Vega If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey towards the stars? - G.K. Chesterton I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. - Claude Monet In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger. - Issa 
Flowers are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade. - Rudyard Kipling Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees, takes off his shoes - The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries. Different flowers look good to different people. Pick the flower when it is ready to be picked. The flower that you spent time to care for does not grow while the willow Little flower, but if I could understand, what you are, root and all in all, I should know what God and man is. - Tennyson He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world with a passion for flowers in his soul. - Celia Thaxter True friendship is like a rose: we don't realize its beauty until it fades. - Evelyn Loeb If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft, and of thy meager store, two loaves alone to thee are left, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul. - Sheikh Muslih-uddin Saadi Shirazi, The Gulistan of Saadi, 1270 As well as any bloom upon a flower, I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower. - Edward Thomas, 1878-1917 In my garden, there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. - Abram L. Urban In friendship's fragrant garden, there are flowers of every hue. Each with its own fair beauty and its gift of joy for you. - Friendship's Garden The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. - Jean Giraudoux None can have a healthy love for flowers unless he loves the wild ones. - Forbes Watson The old tree is shook. White blossoms slowly float down...Dancers in the wind. - Alexandra Kim From a thorn comes a rose, and from a rose comes a thorn. - Greek Proverb He who wants a rose must respect the thorn. - Persian Proverb The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. - Chinese proverb But ne'er the rose without the thorn. - Robert Herrick We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. - Abraham Lincoln This old world that we're livin' in is might hard to beat. You get a thorn with every Rose. But - ain't the roses sweet? - Frank Stanton 
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses. - Alphonse Karr (1808-1890) Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses. - Ovid In the hope of reaching the moon, men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. - Albert Schweitzer When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around. So, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not. - Georgia O'Keeffe Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive. - John Keats If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much a garden of flowers as of colours and tones, less an old-fashioned flower garden than a colour garden, so to speak, one that achieves an effect not entirely nature's, because it was planted so that only the flowers with matching colours will bloom at the same time, harmonized in an infinite stretch of blue or pink. - Marcel Proust, "Splendours". Le Figaro, It will never rain roses. When we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses. - George Eliot At dawn,I asked the lotus, 'What is the meaning of life?' Slowly she opened her hand with nothing in it. - Debra Woolard Bender, Paper Lanterns Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them. - Victoria Glendinning Flowers bring to a liberal and gentlemanly mind the remembrance of honesty, comeliness and all kinds of virtues. - John Gerard Who would have thought it possible that a tiny little flower could preoccupy a person so completely that there simply wasn't room for any other thought...- Sophie Scholl And 't is my faith, that every flower enjoys the air it breathes. - William Wordsworth One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve. - Henry David Thoreau Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them. - Chinese proverb I don't know whether nice people tend to grow roses or growing roses makes people nice. - Roland A Beowne We gathered the wild-flowers. Yes, life there seem'd one pure delight; As thro' the field we rov'd. Yes, life there seem'd one pure delight. - George Linley Silently a flower blooms, 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 Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which when viewed with the eye of a magnifying glass seem a Lilliputian frieze of psychedelic silhouettes. - Duane Michals, The Vanishing Act A rose is a rose is a rose. - Gertrude Stein I have a garden of my own, but so with roses overgrown, and lilies, that you would it guess to be a little wilderness. - Andrew Marvell Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms. - Ikkyu Sojun, 1394-1481 If thou canst but thither, there grows the flower of peace, the rose that cannot wither, thy fortress and thy ease. - Henry Vaughn All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today. - Indian Proverb Every child is born a naturalist. His eyes are, by nature, open to the glories of the stars, the beauty of the flowers, and the mystery of life. - R. Search In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. - Kozuko Okakura |
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