(453 quotes found)
“Soft is the music that would charm for ever;The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.”
William Wordsworth
“For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.”
D.H. Lawrence
“No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,/ No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, - November!”
Thomas Hood
“Butterflies... not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.”
Elizabeth Goudge
“You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The moon, like a flowerIn heaven's high bower,With silent delightSits and smiles on the night.”
William Blake
“Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time”
Georgia O'Keeffe
“The Amen of nature is always a flower.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure ourselves of it.”
St. Teresa of Avila
“Each flower is a soul blossoming out to nature”
Gerard de Nerval
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