“Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.”
Andrew Marvell
“This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.”
William Shakespeare
“Thus having prepared their budsagainst a sure winterthe wise treesstand sleeping in the cold.”
William Carlos Williams
“Rays from the sunrise drew forth the buds and stretched them into long stalks, lifted up sap in noiseless streams, opened petals, and sucked out scents in invisible jets and breathings.”
Thomas Hardy
“Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.”
“For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.”
Bible
“Here and there you'd see a tree that was budding or grass trying to grow. There was hope.”
Carolyn Hunter
