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  • Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy

    Flower   Climbing   House  
    Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.244, Library of Alexandria
  • One person's weed is another person's wildflower.

    Susan Wittig Albert (2003). “AN Unthymely Death”, p.70, Penguin
  • The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

    Nature   Flower   Garden  
    Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”
  • Where flowers bloom so does hope.

    Hope   Spring   Flower  
  • All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seed of today.

  • Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

    Nature   Flower   Garden  
    Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.127
  • I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the British wildflowers, so as we went walking the country, I was constantly being exposed to a natural history sort of knowledge.

    Country   Names   Parent  
  • Man has created some lovely dwellings, some soul-stirring literature. He has done much to alleviate physical pain. But he has not ... created a substitute for a sunset, a grove of pines, the music of the winds, the dank smell of the deep forest, or the shy beauty of a wildflower.

    Pain   Sunset   Men  
  • 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!

    Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.24, Simon and Schuster
  • I dream of a quiet man / who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows / where the rarest wildflowers / are blooming, and who goes, / and finds that he is smiling / not by his own will.

    Dream   Men   Wildflowers  
    Wendell Berry (2013). “This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems”, p.196, Counterpoint
  • With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

    Life   Flower   Book  
  • Like wildflowers you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.

  • Let me drink from the waters where the mountain streams flood Let the smell of wildflowers flow free through my blood Let me sleep in your meadows with the green grassy leaves Let me walk down the highway with my brother in peace Let me die in my footsteps Before I go down under the ground.

    Brother   Sleep   Journey  
    Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.37, Simon and Schuster
  • Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely, eloquent flowers, the hidden caves, but a forest is also made up of ordinary trees, patches of grass, puddles, clinging vines, mushrooms, and little wildflowers.

    "2666: A Novel". Book by Roberto Bolaño, 2008.
  • I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

  • My twenties were about exploring love and being a wildflower and trying to figure everything out. Now I'm not comfortable being that happy wildflower anymore, but I still don't feel like a woman. I wonder when that moment's going to hit.

    "Play Date with Drew". Interview with Carrie Fisher, www.glamour.com. February 28, 2007.
  • 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.

    Love   Romantic   Flower  
    "The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams".
  • The Amen of nature is always a flower.

    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. “The Selected Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.”, Library of Alexandria
  • Break open A cherry tree And there are no flowers; But the spring breeze Brings forth myriad blossoms.

    Nature   Spring   Flower  
    Ikkyū (2003). “Wild Ways: Zen Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)
  • He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.

  • To those whom the tree, the birds, the wildflowers represent only "locked-up dollars" have never known or really seen these things.

    Bird   Tree   Dollars  
  • Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.

  • It will create an excitement that will sweep the country like wildflowers

  • She gazed toward the marsh that grew thicker, deeper, greener with approaching summer. Mosquitoes whined in there, breeding in the dark water. Alligators slid through it, silent death. It was a place where snakes could slither and bogs could suck the shoe right off your foot. And it was a place, she thought, that went bright and beautiful with the twinkling of fireflies, where wildflowers thrived in the shade and the stingy light. Where an eagle could soar like a king. There was no beauty without risk. No life without it.

  • Goodbye Darcy, goodbye Jean, goodbye stone cottage, scratchy towels, fields of wildflowers; good bye gorgeous Peak District ... OK English People, for your own good, get off the roads, here we come!

  • I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

    Spring   Power   Men  
    William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1907). “Letters of the Wordsworth family from 1787 to 1855”
  • Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!

  • In that year [1865] John Muir offered to buy from his brother ... a sanctuary for the wildflowers that had gladdened his youth. His brother declined to part with the land, but he could not suppress the idea: 1865 still stands in Wisconsin history as the birth-year of mercy for things natural, wild, and free.

    Brother   Ideas   Years  
    Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.34, Library of America
  • To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

    "Auguries of Innocence" l. 1 (ca. 1803)
  • Detroit right now is virtually abandoned at its core to the degree that a lot of what had been slums thirty years ago are now wildflower meadows. The rebuilding of Detroit will occur a much smaller scale. It remains to be seen what will become of Detroit's vast suburbs.

    Source: www.treehugger.com
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