Flowers spring up unsown and die ungathered.
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Flowers spring up unsown and die ungathered.
I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.
The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment.
These stars of earth, these golden flowers.
Botany, n. The science of vegetables - those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with their flowers, which are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, and ill-smelling.
To live out of understanding is compassion. Never try to practice it, simply relax deep into meditation. Be in a state of let-go in meditation and suddenly you will be able to smell the fragrance that is coming from your own innermost depth. Then the flower blossoms and compassion spreads. Meditation is the flower and compassion is its fragrance.
Silence of the heart is necessary so you can hear God everywhere - in the closing of the door, in the person who needs you, in the birds that sing, in the flowers, in the animals.
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
Humbly serving all with their beauty, flowers say more to us about God than anything else. Each one brings a message that the Heavenly Father is right here.
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.
I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, very fresh milk and butter, flowers in front of my window and a few pretty trees by my door. And should the good Lord wish to make me really happy, he will allow me the pleasure of seeing about six or seven of my enemies hanged upon those trees.
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.
A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East.
There ain't no doubt in my mind that love is the finest thing around
Love is the salutation of the angel to the stars
One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.
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