A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful.
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
The tints of autumn...a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.
Somewhere the sense makes copper roses steel roses — The rose carried weight of love but love is at an end — of roses It is at the edge of the petal that love waits.
To see a world in a grain of sand_x000D_ And a heaven in a wild flower,_x000D_ Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,_x000D_ And eternity in an hour.
Whoever is sitting with friends is in the midst of a flower garden, though he may be in the fire. Whoever sits with an enemy is in the fire, even though he is in the midst of a garden.
One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much a garden of flowers as of colours and tones, less an old-fashioned flower garden than a colour garden, so to speak, one that achieves an effect not entirely nature's, because it was planted so that only the flowers with matching colours will bloom at the same time, harmonized in an infinite stretch of blue or pink.
Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.
I know a place where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows.
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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