Flowering Trees Quotes:

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Love, Positive, Summer, May Flowers, Inspirational Flower

I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.

- Black Elk

source: Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

topic: Native American, Circles, Shapes, Indian, Indian Wisdom

Only in dreams of spring Shall I ever see again The flowering of my cherry trees.

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

topic: Dream, Spring, Tree, Spring Garden, Cherry Trees

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

- John Muir

source: Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

topic: Peace, Nature, Sunshine, Beautiful Nature, Journeys And Paths

And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.

- Black Elk

topic: Inspirational, Together, Shapes, Indian, Indian Wisdom

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Nature, Stars, Flower, Sounds Of Silence, Soul Beauty

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?

- Alice Walker

topic: Life, Dance, Flower, Arbor Day, Plants And Flowers

I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.

- Black Elk

source: "Black Elk Speaks". Book by John Gneisenau Neihardt, 1932.

topic: Mother, Children, Father, Mother Earth, Flowering Trees

I never see that prettiest thing- A cherry bough gone white with Spring- But what I think, "How gay 'twould be To hang me from a flowering tree.

- Dorothy Parker

source: Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

topic: Spring, Gay, Thinking, Cherry Trees, Flowering Trees

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

- Walt Whitman

source: Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.1321, Delphi Classics

topic: Nature, Travel, Flower, Vagueness, Knowledge Education

The other day, when my 4-year-old saw a flowering tree and said, "Daddy, it's raining petals," that was poetry that just melted my heart into a mushy, yummy Fudgsicle.

- Brendan Fraser

topic: Rain, Heart, Yummy, Flowering Trees

And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.

- Black Elk

topic: Mother, Children, Father, Flowering, Plant A Tree

Creation was given to people as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into people's souls. Sun and moon, night and day, rain, sea, the crops, the flowering tree, all these things were transparent. They spoke to people not of themselves but only of Him who made them. Nature was symbolic. But the progressive degradation of humans led them further and further from this truth. Nature became opaque.

- Thomas Merton

topic: Nature, Rain, Moon, Moon Night, Flowering Trees

A pregnant woman is like a beautiful flowering tree, but take care when it comes time for the harvest that you do not shake or bruise the tree, for in doing so, you may harm both the tree and its fruit.

- Peter Jackson

topic: Beautiful, Pregnancy, Tree, Flowering Trees

Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Honesty, Mistake, Responsibility, Tinkering, Flowering Trees

L.A. kills people.' Jacaranda said. 'You're lucky you're leaving. You'll be able to write.' She looked paler, going through another depression, smoking in bed in her lilac room. The walls were the color of her veins. She was getting too thin, even for the modeling. . .Jacaranda died last winter when the flowering trees were bare. You couldn't even tell which ones once cried the purple blossoms she named herself after.

- Francesca Lia Block

topic: Wall, Writing, Winter, Flowering Trees, Lilac