Peach Blossoms Quotes:

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Positive, Fruit, Bud, Language And Communication, Languages Communication

Walking on willow tree roads by a river dappled with peach blossoms, I look for spring light, but am everywhere lost. Birds fly up and scatter floating catkins. A ponderous wave of flowers sags the branches.

- Wang Wei

topic: Spring, Flower, Light, Willow Trees, Peach Blossoms

I am asked why I live in the green mountains; I smile but reply not, for my heart is at rest. The flowing waters carry the image of the peach blossoms far, far away; there is an earth, there is a heaven, unknown to men.

- Li Bai

topic: Heart, Men, Water, Peach Blossoms, Flowing Water

You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain; I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care. As the peach-blossom flows down stream and is gone into the unknown, I have a world apart that is not among men.

- Li Bai

source: Li Po, “Green Mountain”

topic: Spring, Heart, Men, Peach Blossoms, Worlds Apart

Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

topic: Beautiful, Military, Holiday, Decoration, Memorial Day Messages

Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (1) Mauve waters and green mountains are nothing when the great ancient doctor Hua To could not defeat a tiny worm. A thousand villages collapsed, were choked with weeds, men were lost arrows. Ghosts sang in the doorway of a few desolate houses. Yet now in a day we leap around the earth or explore a thousand Milky Ways. And if the cowherd who lives on a star asks about the god of plagues, tell him, happy or sad, the god is gone, washed away in the waters. July 1, 1958

- Mao Zedong

source: Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.89, Univ of California Press

topic: Life, Weed, Stars, Peach Blossoms, Exemplary