"Where there is peace, God is." ~George Herbert

"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." ~William Penn
"Dictum sapienti sat est - A word to a wise person is sufficient." ~Cicero Ovid Seneca

"May your pen happily writes ...™ ©Leah C Dancel

12/3/14

Quotes on BLOSSOMS and FLOWERS



"For flowers that bloom about our feet;
For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet;
For song of bird, for hum of bee;
For all things fair we hear or see;
Father in heaven we thank Thee.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"A flower awakens its delicate petals to caress the morning dew, only to dance and rejoice in the precious light of this new day. Isn’t it wonderful that you’re meant to shine in that very same way?" ~Robert Clancy on Enlightened Hearts

"A flower's appeal is in its contradictions - so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect." ~Adabella Radici


"A flower's appeal is in its contradictions — so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect." ~Terri Guillemets

"A flower blossoms for its own joy." ~Oscar Wilde


"A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love." ~Max Muller

Credit to IG
 
"A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms." ~Zen Shin from The Burned Hand Bloom.

"A flower fails, though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it." ~Wheeler Cox

“A flower is an educated weed.” ~Luther Burbank

"A flower unfolds to the best of its ability due to the conditions around it. And so do you, you unfold to the best of your ability." ~Kwan Yin

"A tulip doesn't strive to impress anyone. It doesn't struggle to be different from a rose. It doesn't have to. It is different. And there's room in the garden for every flower." ~Marianne Williamson 

“A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.” ~James Russell Lowell 

"Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks." ~Gilbert K. Chesterton

"All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today." ~Indian Proverb 

“All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.” ~Francis Thompson



"An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it." ~Confucius


"And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns." ~Thomas Moore

“As fragrance abides in the flower
As reflection is within the mirror,
So does your Lord abide within you,
Why search for him without?”
~Guru Nanak  

"As I hold the flower in my hand and think of trying to describe it, I realise how poor a creature I am, how impotent are words in the presence of such perfection." ~Celia L. Thaxter

"As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed." ~James Allen

"As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven." ~Russel M. Nelson

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." ~Albert Camus

November 12, 2022
Mona Vale Roadside Garden 

"Be like flowers, bloom everyday. No matter how gloomy the day is, the flower remains beautiful." ~Duoi Ampilan

“Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.”  ~ Khalil Gibran


"Beautiful flowers do not bear good fruit." ~Anon

“Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.” ~Thomas Nashe


“Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what’s in a name?” ~Helen Hunt Jackson

"Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't, they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers." ~Ray Bradbury

Macquarie University Campus 
26 September 2023

"Bees, especially honeybees, are born attracted to the colour purple. ... as flowers in the violet-blue range produce the highest volumes of nectar." ~Plews Garden Design 

"Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets." ~Edna Ferber, 1887-1968, American Writer

Credit to Ellen Zaragoza Escubio 

"Bloom where you are planted." ~St. Francis de Sales

"Bloom with goodness and kindness, sincerity and genuine lovingness." ~Leah C. Dancel, June 1, 2014


Taken at Mayfield Gardens
Oberon NSW
15 September 2018

"Blossom by blossom spring begins." ~Swineburne

"Blossoms adorning the tree and making people smile. The amount of people I have seen pass by this wonderful tree, look up and smile..simply wonderful! What if we were little more like this blossom tree...giving everyone who crosses our path a reason to smile!? Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." ~Marcel Proust

"Bring me the flowers when I can see your beautiful face and smile, and can smell the fragrance, not when they would wilt and wither in d sun." ~Emilio Laxamana Aguinaldo

"By cultivating beautiful peace ~ we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity." ~Vernon Howard

"Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?" ~Maurice Maeterlinck

"Can we speak in flowers? It will be easier for me to understand." ~Nayyirah Waheed

‪"Caring hands grow beautiful flowers." ~Yogi Alejo‬, FB

"Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth." ~Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step

"Count the garden by the flowers never by the leaves that fall.
Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll." ~Anon

“Dark clouds become heaven’s flowers when kissed by light.” ~Rabindranath Tagore 

"Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light." ~Theodore Roethke

"Don't forget to walk barefoot in the grass and study all the pretty flowers and wildlife along the way." ~Cloud Nine Girl

"Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul." ~Luther Burbank

"Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul." ~Mario Quintana

"Each flower is a soul opening out to nature." ~Gerald De Nerval

"Earth is a flower in the Garden of Cosmos! And therefore, a flower on Earth is a flower within the flower!" ~Mehmet Murat Ildan


"Earth laughs in flowers." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers." ~John Keats

"Even the prettiest flower will die one day. It's nature's way of teaching us … that nothing lasts forever." ~Inspiration Capsule

“Every bird, every tree, every flower reminds me what a blessing and privilege it is just to be alive.”  ~Marty Rubin

Mountain Garden
Faulconbridge NSW 
26 December 2023
Irene and Matt 

"Every child is a different kind of flower. And altogether make this world a beautiful garden." ~Anon 

"Every flower must grow through dirt." ~Deborah King

"Every flower must grow through dirt." ~Laurie Jean Sennott

"Every flower that blooms has to go through the dirt." ~Treasures from Heaven

"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night." ~Rainer Maria Rilke

"Faith sees a beautiful blossom in a bulb, a lovely garden in a seed, and a giant Oak in an acorn." ~William Arthur Ward

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

"Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land." ~Song of Solomon 2:12


"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Flowers are a tool to enlightenment!" ~Michelle Penn

"Flowers are like foods. Instead of flavours, they come in colours, varieties and with fragrant or no fragrant scents." ~Leah C. Dancel, 10 March 2012

"Flowers are love's truest language." ~Park Benjamin

"Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; friendship is a sheltering tree." ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Flowers are mother nature's way of telling us how much she loves us. What sunshine is to flowers, smiling faces are to us people: flowers are the smiles of our earth." ~Anon

"Flowers are one of the joys of my life." ~Leah C. Dancel‪, May‬ 11, 2020

"Flowers are precious, living breathing, being that Nature provides, to show us the glimpse of time and the vastness of space." ~©Denia Claret 

"Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts." ~Sigmund Freud

"Flowers are sunshine o the soul." ~Anon


“Flowers are the music of the earth." ~Marty Rubin

"Flowers are the music of the ground, from earth's lips spoken without sound." ~Edwin Curran

"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into." ~Henry Ward Beecher

"Flowers are those little colorful beacons of the sun from which we get sunshine when dark, somber skies blanket our thoughts." ~Dodinsky

"Flowers are words which even a babe may understand.” ~Bishop Arthur Cleveland Coxe

"Flowers awakened my soul. Flowers brought me into the Present Moment where there is no space for blame, resentment, anger or guilt. A new world opened up to me." ~Michelle, Peace in the Present Moment

"Flowers bring to a liberall and gentlemanly minde the remembrance of honestie, comelinesse and all kindes of virtues." ~John Gerard

"Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful." ~Jim Carrey

"Flowers grow out of dark moments." ~Corita Kent (1918-1986)

"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 Marie Child

"Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them." ~Chinese Proverb


“Flowers lift the spirit and refresh the soul” ~Anon


"Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower."~Jean Paul Richter

"Flowers of course are famous for their fragrances, forms, and inspirational displays, but there is something wonderfully satisfying about plucking a vegetable from its bed, brushing the soil off its roots, and thinking about how you will cook it in the evening meal." ~Janelle McCulloch

"Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity." ~John Ruskin

"Flowers whisper "Beauty!" to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall." ~Dr. SunWolf

"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


"For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ." ~Christopher Smart

"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity." ~Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852)

"Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes." ~Clare Ansberry

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

"Give thanks for the rain in your life, which waters the flowers of your soul." ~Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.” ~Henry Ward Beecher.

“Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.” ~John Muir

“Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.” ~Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers." ~Robert Green Ingersoll

"How flowers can make us grateful and appreciable with life. What more joy can flowers do to us through their magnificent beauties however simple they are made of." ~lcd 29/11/2011

"I am going to try to pay attention to the spring, to look around at all the flowers and the trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen." ~Anne Lamott

"I had begun to enjoy the seduction of inadequacy, but a flower couldn't help but bloom inside me." ~Lupita Nyong'o

"I have a garden of my own,
Shining with flowers of every hue;
I love it dearly while alone,
But I shall love it more with you."
~Thomas Moore

"I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers and nothing but the thread which binds them is my own." ~Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.”  ~Edward Abbey

“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete...” ~George Carlin

"I like to think a flower opens itself to outgrow its plantedness. That it yearns to be carried away." ~Anon

"I must have flowers, always and always." ~Claude Monet

"I see the world through eyes of love.
I see love in every flower,
In the sun and the moon,
And in every person I meet."
~Louise L. Hay

"I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being." ~Rumi

"I want to be like a sunflower;
so that even on the darkest days
I will stand tall and find the sunlight."
~Anon

"I will not give up the  flowers in my heart  for stones just because the world is a hard place. The world is only hard because it needs more flower hearted people." ~Nikita Gill 

"If I had a flower for each time I thought of my mother,  I could walk in my garden forever." ~Jane Maxwell,  from her book with the same title 

"If the ears of your soul love the soothing melody of gently whizzing winds through the leaves of trees in the jungle, if you understand the language of the flowers, if the eyes of your heart see and appreciate the beauty of the rainbows of corals in our seas and oceans, Gina Lopez is your sister by heart and soul." ~Ayari Naygnam

"If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom." ~Audra Foveo

"If you listen, not to the pages or preachers but to the smallest flower growing from a crack in your heart, you will hear a great song moving across a wide ocean whose water is the music; connecting all the islands of the universe together, and touching all you will feel it touching you around you, embracing you with light. It is in that light that everything lives and will always be alive." ~John Squadra

"If you love a flower, don't pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation." ~Osho

"In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends." ~Kozuko Okakura

"In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms." ~Anon

"In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful." ~Abram L. Urban

"In my life and in my work, flowers represent so many positive things to me: spirit, creativity, happiness, love, and most of all, the natural world's persistent inclination towards beauty." ~Mary Engelbreit 

"In the garden I see only your face. From trees and blossoms I inhale only your fragrance." ~Rumi

"In the hope of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet." ~Albert Schweitzer

"In the language of flowers the white chrysanthemum represents truth and honesty." ~S (Each Day Anew)

"In your heart is a volcano. How shall you expect flowers to bloom?" ~Khalil Gibran

"Is there anything in the world more charming than the way Tulips hold up their little faces to the sun? " ~Nat Davidson, @Nature Delights

“It gives you a good feeling. Each year, you rediscover in a garden the magic of life. A flower arrives, and it is a miracle. The leaves fall in the autumn, and it looks fantastic. There is a tenderness about a garden, and you can't help but be sensitive to that.” ~Hubert de Givenchy


"It is at the edge of a petal that love waits." ~William Carlos Williams

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

"Just as the flower is not the petal, the hues and colour, our Soul is not just the physical presence we have; but it's beyond the existence of it. Just as a bud becomes a flower; in flowering with all its essence, we must also strive to flower into a beautiful living. And remember the essence of a beautiful life is Love and Kindness." ~V.E.D.

"Just before the death of flowers,
And before they are buried in snow,
There comes a festival season
When nature is all aglow."
~Anon 

"Just living is not enough...one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower." ~Hans Christian Andersen

“Let me drink from the waters where the mountain streams flow
Let the smell of wildflowers flow free through my blood
Let me sleep in your meadows with the green grassy leaves.”  
~Bob Dylan

"Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well." ~Wilfred Peterson

"Let the flowers bloom, let there be a full moon." ~Li Ziqi

"Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair..." ~Susan Polis Shutz

"Let us linger a while in the wonderful old Lilac walk. It is a glory of tender green and shaded amethyst and the grateful hum of bees, the very voice of Spring." ~Alice Morse Earle

"Life is the flower for which love is the honey." ~Victor Hugo 

"Like a fleeting moment in time, a  trees delicate blossoms only last for a few weeks, as the wild winds come and take the petals away, leaving behind a sprinkling of petals upon the ground." ~Athey Thompson

"Like wildflowers you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would." -Audre Lorde

"Like wildflowers; You must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would." ~E.V


"Little flower, but if I could understand what you are, root and all in all, I should know what God and man is." ~Tennyson

"Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air." ~Georges Bernanos

"Look at flowers, butterflies, trees and children with the eyes of compassion. Compassion will change your life and make it wonderful." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

"Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but at the right time God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you." ~Edward Payson Rod

“Look in the perfumes of flowers and of nature for peace of mind and joy of life.” ~Wang Wei

"Love's Flowers: Become the flower—soft, colorful, reaching for the heavens. You were born from the morning dew under a starlit sky. Your very essence fills the air with an ocean wonder. Open your petals to the light of this new day so the world may admire all of your beauty." ~Robert Clancy

"Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works it's sweet miracles undaunted by Autumn frost or Winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all year, and blessing those who give and those who receive." ~Louisa May Alcott

"Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow." ~John Lennon

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

“Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.” ~D. H. Lawrence


“Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer’s year--it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.” ~Anon

“Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.” ~Nora Roberts

"Manifestation is like a flower, you must put so much intent into its energy before you can sight its beauty." ~Nikki Rowe

"Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Many people have never learned to see the beauty of flowers, especially those that grow unnoticed. For instance, when you walk outside and look down at your feet, you may see tiny flowers nestled in the moss and clover hiding under a curled fern. Most people just step on them. I paint them." ~Erika Just

"May the flowers fill your heart with beauty." ~Chief Dan George

"May the flowers remind us why the rain was so necessary." ~Xan Oku

“May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.” ~Native American Proverb

"Melody is, and ever will be, the very flower of music." ~August W. Ambros

"Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants." ~John W. Gardner

"My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams." ~Anon

"Never forget when a child gives you a gift, even if it is a flower they have just picked,  in their eyes they are choosing to give you the most precious thing they had to give. " ~Lessons Learned in Life

"No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up int the middle of nowhere." ~Sheryl Crow

"No mud, no lotus." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

"Nothing in nature blooms all year. Be patient with yourself. Deep in their roots all flowers store the light." ~Project Happiness


"Nothing quite like a bright spay of yellow to brighten the winter blues." ~Solo:The Independent Traveler

"Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness." ~Conor Oberst

"O for a garden of the olden time where none but long familiar flowers grow." ~John Russell Hayes

"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

"Perfumes are the feelings of flowers." ~Heinrich Heine

GARDEN Quote for Today

"Plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul,  instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers." ~Jorge Luis Borges 

"Poetry is a garden that blooms!" ~Leah C. Dancel, June 21 , 2021 ~•✿•~ ~•✿•~

"Purify yourself and become dust so that from the dust flowers can grow." ~Rumi

"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies for instance." ~John Ruskin

"Romance ... It's not a place...it's not a dream. Nor is it exclusive to the blissful relationship of a man and a woman made one in love. It is the very dance of life itself...in sunrises and sunsets, in the pulsing firefly stars in the night-sky, in the stretching of grass, the fragrance of blooming flowers flirting with the flying flowers, in the reflection of the universe in the dewdrop clinging to a leaf in the morning mist...it is in the awesome poetry of the living oneness of all in love all around us!" ~Surf Reyes

“She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank... and had midnight swims...” ~Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things from Goodreads

‪"So easy to be an artist with plants and flowers. They are the teachers." ~Julia A. Baeyens ‬

"Spring Season is when my yard fills with flowers in bloom that makes me feel better and happier." ~Jessa Mae Velasco Dancel

"‪Talk to the flowers, the wind and the waves, they can listen without complaining." ~‬Winnie Dacoco-Carmona

"The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him." ~Auguste Rodin

"The beauty of the earth consists of gorgeous flowers." ~Leah C Dancel, 20 March 2024

“The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.” ~Saint Francis de Sales

"The earth laughs in flowers." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life." ~Jean Giraudoux

"The flower is aware of the fact that it contains everything within it, the whole cosmos, and it does not try to become something else." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

"The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life." ~Jean Giraudoux

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all." ~Mulan


"The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size." ~Gertrude S. Wister


"The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all." ~Chinese Proverb

"The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days." ~Robert Leighton

"The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly." ~William Wordsworth

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

“The heart is the garden that always has room for the flowers of kindness and friendship to bloom.” ~Anon

"The inner complexity and form of a flower is awe-inspiring." -Anon

“The key to nature's therapy is feeling like a tiny part of it, not a master over it. There's amazing pride in seeing a bee land on a flower you planted - but that's not your act of creation, it's your act of joining in.” ~Victoria Coren Mitchell


"The lovely flowers embarrass me,
They make me regret I am not a bee."
~Emily Dickinson

"The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee…gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own." ~Leonardo da Vinci

"The miracles of nature do not seem miracles because they are so common. If no one had ever seen a flower, even a dandelion would be the most startling event in the world." ~Anon

"The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon." ~Jean Ingelow


"The most beautiful flowers bloom only when being surrounded by love and care." ~WNews

"The nature of This Flower is to bloom." ~Alice Walker

"The next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leaves you speechless... remain that way, say nothing and listen as heaven whispers, 'Did you like it? I did it just for you.'" ~Max Lucado

“The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams." ~Lewis Thompson

"The splendour of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness." ~Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)

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

"Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers." ~Henry Walter Bates

"There are always flowers for those who want to see them." ~Henri Matisse

"There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed." ~Harriet Beecher Stowe

"There is a flower,
a little flower
with silver crest and golden eye,
That welcomes every changing hour,
And weathers every sky."
~James Montgomery

"There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon." ~Matsuo Basho

“There is poetry among the wildflowers.” ~Rachel Irene Stevenson

"These flowers are like the pleasures of the world."  ~ William Shakespeare

‪"Those pretty Poppy flowers are so delicately and beautifully arrayed on the field. Beaming is the gorgeous sunrise on the horizon that brings hope and peace through this troubled earth." ~Precy Bierbaum, April 27, 2020‬

"'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it." ~William Cowper on Liberty

"To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat." ~Beverly Nichols

"To create a little flower is the labour of all ages." ~William Blake 

"To me, flowers are happiness." ~Memories

"To see a world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour." ~William Blake


"To wander in the fields of flowers pull the thorns from your Heart." ~Rumi

"Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wild flowers will come up where you are." ~Rumi

"We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces." ~Richard Le Gallienne

“We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.” ~Loren Eiseley


"We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers." ~Richard Henry Stoddard

"We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all." ~Dorothy Day

"What riches are ours in the world of nature, from the majesty of the distant peak to the fragile beauty of a tiny flower, and all without cost to us, the beholders! No person is poor who has watched a sunrise or who keeps a mountain in his or her heart." ~Esther Baldwin York

"What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry." ~Laurie Lee

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable." ~Joseph Addison

"When a flower doesn't bloom you fix the environment in which it grows not the flower." ~Alexander Den Heijer

"When flowers are in full bloom, there is still hope for better days." ~Raquel Geralde Villanueva

"When mindfulness embraces those around you, they will bloom 1ike flowers." ~Anon

“When the flower blossoms, the bee will come.” ~Srikumar Rao

"When the tide is in and they are under water, sea anemones look rather like beautiful flowers." ~Overleaf Lodge

"When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us." ~Ram Dass

"When words fail, flowers console..!" ~Anon

"Where flowers bloom so does hope." ~Lady Bird Johnson

"Who would have thought it possible that a tiny little flower could preoccupy a person so completely that there simply wasn't room for any other thought." ~Sophie Scholl

"Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings, while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful?" ~Leo Buscaglia

"Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom." ~Rumi

"Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!" ~Lady Bird Johnson

"Wildflowers can't be controlled, and neither can the girl with a soul boundless as the sky, and a spirit as free and wild as the ocean." ~Melody Lee

"With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy." ~Lope de Vega

"With each step, a gentle wind blows.
With each step, flower blooms.
~Thich Nhat Hanh

"Within us, a flower and fruit garden thrives and blooms." ~Rolaiza Mimi Singayao

"You are a beautiful flower in the garden of humanity." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

"You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers." ~Walter C. Hagen


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Dr. Deena Padayachee 

"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming." ~Pablo Neruda

"You can see the goldenrod, that most tenacious and pernicious and beauteous of all New England flora, bowing away from the wind like a great and silent congregation." ~Stephen King, 'Salem's Lot

"Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every colour and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance." ~an imaginary view of a blind patient told to another patient in exquisite details sourced from the article of Encouragement.

"Your minds may now be likened to a garden, which will, if neglected, yield only weeds and thistles; but, if cultivated, will produce the most beautiful flowers, and the most delicious fruits." ~Dorothea Dix

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RELATED QUOTES

"Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom.” ~Gabriel García Márquez

"Bloom for the ones who understand you're not meant for greedy hands, or to suffocate in forgotten vases." ~F.K. Brown

"Choose your thoughts. Like you would choose flowers for a bouquet." ~Happiness Convert


"Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude." ~Anne Frank

"Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade." ~Marcel Proust

"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul." ~Henry Ward Beecher

"Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it." ~John Muir

"In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger.” ~Kobayashi Issa

"No rain. No flowers." ~Sue Fitzmaurice

"Normality is a paved road; it's comfortable to walk but no flowers grow." -Vincent Van Gogh

"Nothing in nature blooms all year. Be patient with yourself." ~Karen Salmansohn

"Real friends overlook your broken fence and admire your flowers." ~Muses from a Mystic

"She does love lavender because it's the colour of transformation." ~Felicity Huffman

"She is like a wildflower; beautiful, fierce, and free." ~Anon

"So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls." ~John Updike

"Some people could be given an entire field of roses and only see the thorns in it. Others could be given a single weed and only see a wildflower in it. Perception is a key component to gratitude. And gratitude a key component to joy." ~Amy Weatherly

"Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water." ~Brian Jacques, Redwall

"The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. The mountain of granite blooms into an eternal flower, with the lightness and delicate finish, as well as the aerial proportions and perspective of vegetable beauty." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson on Architecture

"The time came when the risk it took to remain tight in the bud became more painful than the risk it took to bloom." ~Anais Nin

"To wander in the fields of flowers,  pull the thorns from your heart." ~Hazrat Rumi RA

"When innocence blooms, it blooms into perfect love." ~Gede Prama

“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


"Wherever life plants you, bloom with grace." ~French Proverb

“Wildflowers adapt and bloom wherever they want. Be a wildflower.” ~Aly Aubrey

"Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!"  ~Lady Bird Johnson

"Without anger, life is a beautiful flower." ~Gede Prama, Bell of Peace

"Women are like flowers. One woman and one flower inspire men. Many flowers and many women in one place cause a headache." ~Moritz (Moses) Gottlieb Saphir

"Words can travel thousands of miles. May my words create mutual understanding and love. May they be as beautiful as gems, as lovely as flowers." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

“Yelling at a bud won’t make it bloom. Speak gently to your children.” ~Courtney Joseph 


"You belong among the wildflowers.  You belong somewhere you feel free." ~Tom Petty


"Your new blooms will need a bit of time to grow so don't forget to give them plenty of sunlight, water and of course lots of love." ~Donna Beazley 





PIXELS' Quotes from Block Blast Adventure














VERSES

"A flash of harmless lightning,
A mist of rainbow dyes,
The burnished sunbeams brightening
From flower to flower he flies."
~John Banister Tabb

"Around the pillars of the palm-tree bower
The orchids cling, in rose and purple spheres;
Shield-broad the lily floats; the aloe flower
Foredates its hundred years."
~Bayard Taylor, Canopus

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"Be flowers
In these troubled times
smoked out with coal
Be roses and lilies."
~Charles Cros

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"I have a garden of my own,
Shining with flowers of every hue;
I love it dearly while alone,
But I shall love it more with you."
~Thomas Moore

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It's nearly spring...A Sonnet for Springtime.

Gazing with love at the world around me
Seeing the flowers in full bloom
A kaleidoscope of colours in harmony
Washing away Winter's gloom
Suddenly life erupts noisily in the air
A flurry of forms all excited
That the world is renewed
by Nature's tender care...
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“The Lily of the valley, breathing in the humble grass
Answer'd the lovely maid and said: "I am a watry weed,
And I am very small, and love to dwell in lowly vales;
So weak, the gilded butterfly scarce perches on my head;
Yet I am visited from heaven, and he that smiles on all
Walks in the valley and each morn over me spreads his hand,
Saying: 'Rejoice, thou humble grass, thou new-born lily flower,”

~William Blake

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"Now thin mists temper the slow ripening beams 

Of the September sun: his golden gleams 

On gaudy flowers shine, that prank the rows 

Of high-grown hollyhocks, and all tall shows

That Autum flauntreth in his bushy bowers..."
~Robert Seymour Bridges from "The Garden in September," (1914)

"The flower offered of itself
And eloquently spoke
Of Gods
In languages of rainbows
Perfumes
And secret silence..."
~Phillip Pulfrey

“There is a flower, a little flower
With silver crest and golden eye,
That welcomes every changing hour,
And weathers every sky.”
~James Montgomery on Daisies

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