Flower Quotes

• Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens. There were many of them, but the most beautiful of all was a walled garden in which every flower was blue. There were all the obvious things like delphiniums and acronitums and larkspurs, but the most beautiful blue of all came from the groups of cabbages - the ordinary blue pickling cabbage. Set against the blazing blue of the other flowers, it had a bloom and elegance which made it a thing of the greatest delight.

  

  Beverley Nichols
  • House
  • Beautiful
  • Famous

• To create a little flower is the labour of ages.

  

  William Blake
  • Flower
  • Create
  • Labour Of Ages

• I used to live in a gap jumper, tracksuit bottoms and a fake flower in my hair. Shocking.

  

  Jessie J
  • Live
  • Hair
  • Fake

• Silently a flower blooms,

  

  Zenkei Shibayama
  • Flower

• Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Advice
  • Looks
  • Innocent

• This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's isolated, and there is no resupply. And we are mistreating it. Clearly, the highest loyalty we should have is not to our own country or our own religion or our hometown or even to ourselves. It should be to, number two, the family of man, and number one, the planet at large. This is our home, and this is all we've got.

  

  Scott Carpenter
  • Men
  • Country
  • Home

• The cherry blossom tree is truly a sight to behold, especially when it is in full riotous bloom. There are several varieties of the cherry blossom tree, and while most of them produce flowering branches full of small pinkish-hued flowers, some of them produce actual cherries.

  

  Homaro Cantu
  • Tree
  • Produce
  • Variety

• Rose is the most beautiful flower - it and tuberose are my favourites.

  

  Aerin Lauder
  • Beautiful
  • Flower
  • Rose

• The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites; but he is not thinking about destruction except incidentally. It is only the amateur like myself who becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure in weeds that are big and bad enough to pull, and at last, almost forgetting the flowers altogether, turns into a Reformer.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Thinking
  • Bad
  • True

• Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.

  

  William Henry Hudson
  • Moving
  • Bird
  • Gems

• The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Rose
  • Poet
  • Lovers

• You can see the vibrant color of a flower and smell its beautiful scent. But when you truly come to know a flower you will also hear its song.

  

  Katrina Mayer
  • Song
  • Know
  • See

• Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Flower

• I made the first 'Blumen' picture after looking at Robert Mapplethorpe's Pictures book. I was struck by how much freedom Mapplethorpe was able to extract from his model's restraint-that in tying up and cropping his models, he appears to be able to work with people as forms. I never thought about my flowers as related to his (which I saw as annoyingly erotic); I thought of them in relationship to bondage. I wanted to make the flowers more aggressive and ironic and less docile and sensual.

  

  Collier Schorr
  • People
  • Book
  • Ironic

• I love you between shadow and soul. I love you as the plant that hasn't bloomed yet, and carries hidden within itself the light of flowers. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. Because of you, the dense fragrance that rises from the earth lives in my body, rioting with hunger for the eternity of our victorious kisses.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Soul
  • Earth
  • Light

• Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.

  

  Francis Cabot Lowell
  • Garden
  • Plant
  • Circles

• Im not expecting to grow flowers in the desert, but I can live, and breathe, and see the sun in wintertime.

  

  Stuart Adamson Big Country
  • Breathe
  • Grow
  • Desert

• Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, The periwinkle trails its wreath; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes. The birds around me hopped and played, Their thoughts I cannot measure; But the least motion which they made, It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the breezy air; And I must think, do all I can That there was pleasure there. If this belief from heaven be sent, If such be Nature's holy plan, Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Spring

• To me, our destinies seem flower and fruit Born of an ever-generating root...

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Flower

• In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful, white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can't seem to get there no how. I can't seem to get over that line.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Mind
  • Beautiful
  • Lovely

• In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • People
  • Music
  • God

• Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Art
  • Culture

• So, in the tulip, we have a flower of beauty and grace of charm, refinement and distinction. It is a powerful flower and it knows it

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Powerful
  • Flower
  • Grace

• When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up, Opened in airs of June her multitude Of golden chalices to humming-birds And silken-wing'd insects of the sky.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Air
  • Tree
  • Bird

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