If you pass by the color purple in a field and don't notice it, God gets real pissed off.

---   Alice Walker

Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them.---  Chinese proverb

 

“The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.”

The world is a rose; smell it and pass it to your friends.--- Persian Proverb

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

---  Henry David Thoreau

And 't is my faith, that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes.---  William Wordsworth

 

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.

---   Alphonse Karr

“Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made.’’

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

It will never rain roses.  When we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.

---   George Eliot  

“Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.”

Where flowers bloom so does hope.---  Lady Bird Johnson

“The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment .”

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

I don't know whether nice people tend to grow rosesor growing roses makes people nice.

---   Roland A Beowne

Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.---  Ovid

 

If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.

---   John Lancaster Spalding

If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its

long journey toward the stars?---  G.K. Chesterton

What a desolate place would be a world without a flower!  It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not our starts

the flowers of the heaven.---   A.J. Balfour

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

---   Robert G.  Ingersoll 

“Take time to smell the roses.”

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

---   Jean Giraudoux

The Earth Laughs in Flowers.

---  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Flowers are love's truest language.---   Park Benjamin

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

“The nature of This Flower is to bloom.” 

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

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