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
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
In the hope of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Albert Schweitzer
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
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
Antonio Porchia (1885-1968)
To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
Beverly Nichols
Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
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
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 leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them.
Chinese Proverb
None can have a healthy love for flowers unless he loves the wild ones.
Forbes Watson
None can have a healthy love for flowers unless he loves the wild ones.
Forbes Watson
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment.
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986)
Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven’t time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986)
Each flower is a soul opening out to nature.
Gerard De Nerval (1808-1855)
The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.
Gertrude S. Wister
Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to attempt to fully understand.
Henry T. Tuckerman
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
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 (1919-1999)
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Jean Giraudoux
God has sown his name on the heavens in glittering stars; but on earth he planteth his name by tender flowers.
Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825)
Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
John Keats
Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.
Kozuko Okakura
Where flowers bloom so does hope.
Lady Bird Johnson
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
Lope de Vega (1562-1635)
Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
Lydia M. Child
Earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
Who would have thought it possible that a tiny little flower could preoccupy a person so completely that there simply was not room for any other thought...
Sophie Scholl
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
Tennessee Williams (1911–1983)
Deep in their root, all flowers keep the light.
Theodore Roethke
Pluck not the wayside flower;
It is the traveler´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 (1883-1963)
And it is my faith, that every flower enjoys the air it breathes.
William Wordsworth
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