1,142 Quotes About Flower

The tree is but a huge boquet.

Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.

Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.

Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity supposed able to do them; which yet are works very gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree.

There do remain dispersed in the soil of human nature divers seeds of goodness, of benignity, of ingenuity, which, being cherished, excited, and quickened by good culture, do, by common experience, thrust out flowers very lovely, and yield fruits very pleasant of virtue and goodness.

But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower