Flowers Quotations
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| 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! | |||
| - Edward Abbey | |||
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| Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock. | |||
| - Henry Ward Beecher | |||
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| 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 Maria Child | |||
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| Earth laughs in flowers. | |||
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson | |||
| Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. | |||
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson | |||
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| The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. | |||
| - Jean Giraudoux | |||
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| I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. | |||
| - Emma Goldman | |||
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| Perfumes are the feelings of flowers. | |||
| - Heinrich Heine | |||
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| Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers? | |||
| - Maurice Maeterlinck | |||
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| Being perfect artists and ingenuous poets, the Chinese have piously preserved the love and holy cult of flowers; one of the very rare and most ancient traditions which has survived their decadence. And since flowers had to be distinguished from each other, they have attributed graceful analogies to them, dreamy images, pure and passionate names which perpetuate and harmonize in our minds the sensations of gentle charm and violent intoxication with which they inspire us. So it is that certain peonies, their favorite flower, are saluted by the Chinese, according to their form or color, by these delicious names, each an entire poem and an entire novel: The Young Girl Who Offers Her Breasts, or: The Water That Sleeps Beneath the Moon, or: The Sunlight in the Forest, or: The First Desire of the Reclining Virgin, or: My Gown Is No Longer All White Because in Tearing It the Son of Heaven Left a Little Rosy Stain; or, even better, this one: I Possessed My Lover in the Garden. | |||
| - Octave Mirbeau | |||
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| There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. | |||
| - John Muir | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow. | |||
| - Antonio Porchia | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity. | |||
| - John Ruskin | |||
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| Flowers really do intoxicate me. | |||
| - Vita Sackville-West | |||
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| Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. | |||
| - Walt Whitman | |||
| A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. | |||
| - Walt Whitman | |||
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| The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. | |||
| - Tennessee Williams | |||
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| A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring. | |||
| - William Carlow Williams | |||
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| Tis my faith that every flower enjoys the air it breathes! | |||
| - William Wordsworth | |||