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Flowers

Flowers whisper “Beauty!” to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall. – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com

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

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

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. – Gerard de Nerval

Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul. – The Koran

If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn. – Andrew Mason

Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch. – G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions, “The Glory of Grey”

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. – Claude Monet

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

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

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair… – Susan Polis Shutz

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

I like to think a flower opens itself to outgrow its plantedness. That it yearns to be carried away. – Author Unknown

A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring. – The Collected Later Poems of William Carlos Williams

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 M. Child

I hope some day to meet God, because I want to thank Him for the flowers. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Roses fall, but the thorns remain. – Danish proverb

Fair flowers are not left standing along the wayside long. – Proverb

To create a little flower is the labor of ages. – William Blake

Just now the lilac is in bloom,
All before my little room;
And in my flower-beds, I think,
Smile the carnation and the pink… – Rupert Brooke