Flowers And Gardens Quotes:

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

- Hans Christian Andersen

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Nature, Philosophical, Flower, Enough Said, Just Living Life

Where flowers bloom so does hope.

- Lady Bird Johnson

topic: Flower, Doe, Blooming Flower, Inspirational Flower, Inspirational Gardening

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

- Jorge Luis Borges

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday, May Flowers, Inspirational Gardening

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

- Luther Burbank

topic: Nature, Flower, Sunshine, Inspirational Gardening, Spring Garden

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

source: Iris Murdoch (2001). “A Fairly Honourable Defeat”, p.135, Penguin

topic: Nature, Flower, Sunshine, Beautiful Nature, Inspirational Flower

The butterfly is a flying flower, The flower a tethered butterfly.

- Ponce Denis Ecouchard Lebrun

topic: Flower, Butterfly, Flying, Monarch Butterfly, Caterpillars

Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.

- Arthur Cleveland Coxe

topic: Baby, Flower, Garden, Inspirational Baby, Flower Garden

In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.

- Okakura Kakuzo

source: Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.84, Tuttle Publishing

topic: Flower, Sadness, Garden, Joy And Sadness, Inspirational Gardening

Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Weed, Kindness, Flower, Kind Deeds, Kind Thoughts

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

source: To Varro, in "Ad Familiares" IX, 4,

topic: Inspirational, Educational, Reading, Inspirational Gardening, Library Books

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Love, Sweet, Flower, Inspirational Flower, Star Crossed Lovers

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

- Georgia O'Keeffe

source: Quoted in N.Y. Post, 16 May 1946

topic: Nature, Flower, Garden, Inspirational Flower, Wildflowers

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

- Jean Giraudoux

source: Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

topic: Flower, Example, Inspirational Flower, Blossoming, Wildflowers

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Beauty, Eye, Garden, Spring Garden, Flower Garden

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

- George Eliot

topic: Inspirational, Rain, Flower, Inspirational Rain, Plant A Tree

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Happiness, Inspirational Gardening, Inspirational Positive Attitude

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

- Claude Monet

topic: Art, Nature, Flower, Mother Nature, Blossoming

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

- Rudyard Kipling

topic: Beautiful, Garden, Sight, Japanese Gardens, Inspirational Gardening

Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

source: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

topic: Beautiful, Flower, Garden, Hieroglyphics, Flower Garden

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

- James Russell Lowell

topic: Weed, Nature, Flower, Inspirational Flower, Inspirational Gardening

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

- Emma Goldman

topic: Life, Nature, Flower, Blooming Flower, Funny Valentines Day

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

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

topic: Family, Children, Flower, Inspirational Flower, Inspirational Gardening

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Nature, Flower, Garden, Beautiful Nature, Inspirational Flower

All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seed of today.

- Croft M. Pentz

topic: Flower, Today, Tomorrow, Inspirational Flower, Blooming

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

- Albert Camus

topic: Encouraging, Nature, Spring, Inspirational Flower, Spiritual Nature

One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.212, New York Review of Books

topic: Beautiful, Flower, Attractive Things, Attractiveness, Wildflowers

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 Theodore Tuckerman

topic: Beauty, Flower, Garden, Summer Flower, Dissecting

Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them.

- Victoria Glendinning

topic: Weed, Garden, Too Much, Flowers And Gardens

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

source: Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.4, Applewood Books

topic: Flower, Passion, Garden, Flowers And Gardens, Silver Spoons

A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.

- William Carlos Williams

source: William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.68, New Directions Publishing

topic: Rain, Flower, Compassion, Spring Flowers, Pink Flower

Break open A cherry tree And there are no flowers; But the spring breeze Brings forth myriad blossoms.

- Ikkyu

source: Ikkyū (2003). “Wild Ways: Zen Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)

topic: Spring, Flower, Tree, Spring Flowers, Spring Poems

Forsythia is pure joy. There is not an ounce, not a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia. Pure, undiluted, untouched joy.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

topic: Spring, Sadness, Joy, Pure Joy, Flowers And Gardens

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

topic: Sweet, Mistake, Home, Landscape Architecture, Organic Architecture

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

- John Muir

topic: Nature, Flower, Garden, May Flowers, Inspirational Flower

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

- Walt Whitman

source: Walt Whitman (1868). “Poems”, p.221

topic: Beautiful, Flower, Sunshine, May Flowers, Flower Garden

Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child.

- Barbara Damrosch

source: Barbara Damrosch (1982). “Theme Gardens”, Workman Publishing Company

topic: Children, Garden, Gardening, Flowers And Gardens

I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error.

- Sara Bonnett Stein

topic: Flower, Garden, Thinking, Planting A Garden, Flower Garden

Don't force anything. Let life be a deep let go.

- Eileen Caddy

topic: Letting Go, Life Is, Force, Flowers And Gardens

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.

- John Ruskin

topic: Flower, Humanity, Ordinary, Flowers And Gardens, Rose Flower

'Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes!

- William Wordsworth

topic: Flower, Air, Breathe, Inspirational Flower, Spring Flowers

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

- Lope de Vega

topic: Life, Flower, Book, Simple Things, Wildflowers

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

- Walt Whitman

topic: Beauty, Nature, Morning, Morning Glory, Summer Flower

Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire.

- George Meredith

topic: Flower, Broken, Necks, Flowers And Gardens, Crocuses

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.

- William Blake

source: 'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 1

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Peace, Beautiful Nature, Spirit Of Life

Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

- Miguel de Cervantes

topic: Men, Mouths, Spoons, Flowers And Gardens, Silver Spoons

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

- Beverley Nichols

topic: Flower, Overcoming, Defeat, Summer Flower, Delectable

Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy

- Robert Green Ingersoll

source: Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.244, Library of Alexandria

topic: Flower, Climbing, House, Blossoming, Wildflowers

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

- Gerard De Nerval

topic: Nature, Flower, Tree, Inspirational Flower, Blooming

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.

- Georgia O'Keeffe

source: Quoted in N.Y. Post, 16 May 1946

topic: Inspirational, Nature, Flower, Inspirational Flower, Blossoming

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

- Aristotle

topic: Life, Nature, Philosophical, Beautiful Nature, Marvelous Things