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"Every Flower Blooms At A Different Pace".

• "There are always flowers for those who want to see". Henri Matisse.

• "A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists". Mike White.

• "When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art". Paul Cezanne.

• “Every flower blooms at a different pace.”  Suzy Kassem.

• "A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet". Anna Held.

• "Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same".  Helen Keller.

• "I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow". Abraham Lincoln.

• "The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes". Mark Nepo.

• "The first wild-flower of the year is like land after sea". Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

• "I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process". Eckhart Tolle.

• "In the hope of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet." Albert Schweitzer.  

• "There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower". Richard Feynman.

• "A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love". Max Muller.

• "Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree". Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

• "Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night". Rainer Maria Rilke.

• "The Japanese say, If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated". Lester Cole.

• "How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a great miracle. I think there's a supreme power behind all of this. I see it in nature". Clyde Tombaugh.

• "The lotus flower is troubled

         At the sun's resplendent light;

         With sunken head and sadly

         She dreamily waits for the night".

         Heinrich Heine.

• "Even if you think the Big Bang created the stars, don't you wonder who sent the flowers?" Robert Brault.

• "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen".  James Joyce.

• "Flowers always have it — poise, completion, fulfillment, perfection" . .  Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

• "Flowers are words which even a babe may understand". Quentin Crisp.

• "When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited". Ramakrishna.

• "Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower". John Harrigan.

• "The Amen of nature is always a flower". Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

• "We trample grass, and prize the flowers of May; yet the grass is green when the flower fades away". R. Southwell.

• "Love is the flower you've got to let grow". John Lennon

• "What a desolate place would be a world without a flower!  It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome.  Are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not our stars the flowers of the heaven?" A.J. Balfour.

• "The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size". Gertrude S. Wister.

• "I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then". Lucy Maud Montgomery.

• "I do not think I have ever seen anything more beautiful than the bluebell I have been looking at. I know the beauty of our Lord by it". Gerald Manley Hopkins.

• "No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone". Oscar Wilde.

• "If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?"  G.K. Chesterton.

• "Commonsense is a flower that doesn't bloom in everyone's garden". Anon.

• "To pick a flower is so much more satisfying than just observing it, or photographing it ...  So in later years, I have grown in my garden as many flowers as possible for children to pick." Anne Scott-James.

• "Life is the flower for which love is the honey". Victor Hugo.

• "A beautiful flower begins its life in the dirt". Anon.

• "The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfillment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight".  John Ruskin.

• "I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers". Claude Monet.

• "The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfillment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight".  John Ruskin.

• "Gardens are a form of autobiography." Anon.

• "Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul". Luther Burbank.

• "Plant your own Garden and decorate your own Soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you Flowers". Anon.

• "Plant your own Garden and decorate your own Soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you Flowers". Anon.

•  "Harvest, oh! harvest your hour 

         While life is abloom with youth! 

         For age with bitter ruth 

         Will fade your beauty’s flower". Pierre de Ronsard. 1524 - 1585.

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