Plants And Flowers Quotes

We evolved in a tropical climate where the smells of plants and flowers were all around us. We spent a lot of time in the trees with a lot of sunlight and no clothes.

I hardly have any spare time! But when I do, I garden a lot - I love plants and flowers.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Having plants and flowers in my space makes me feel very calm and Zen. For me, its important to meditate every morning to be very clear in the head, and nature really helps me do the same thing.

Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die.

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

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!

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

Even if you think the Big Bang created the stars, don't you wonder who sent the flowers?

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Not as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai. Coiling and uncoiling in double dawns; tossing tumultuously under vast suns of jade green and balas-ruby orange; swaying and weltering in rich twilights, in aurora-curtained nights, they resembled fields of rooted serpents that dance eternally to an other-worldly music.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Christianity sees plants and flowers as created by God to show forth and share with humans the divine goodness, beauty and truth - the purpose of all Creation. In this flowers may be enjoyed simply and directly in themselves as showing forth God's goodness and beauty, or, more fully, as archetypes, signatures, symbols, and bearers of legends, mirroring the revealed articles of Christian faith - thereby serving as means for their teaching, recollection, contemplation and celebration.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

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.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.