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 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.
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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.
Forsythia is pure joy. There is not an ounce, not a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia. Pure, undiluted, untouched joy.
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to attempt to fully understand.
Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.
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.
The Amen of nature is always a flower.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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