Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
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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.
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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