Flowers are beautiful. No one knows this more than a florist. Or at least this idea seams reasonable. I've collected a polethera of quotes from florists about flowers. I hope you find them inspiring.
A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile,
available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar.
Its smell reminds us in vestigial ways of fertility, vigor, life-force,
all the optimism, expectancy, and passionate bloom of youth.
We inhale its ardent aroma and, no matter what our ages,
we feel young and nubile in a world aflame with desire.
- Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses, 1990, p. 13
A Flower saying by a Florist
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
- Emma Goldman
A Flower saying by a Florist
flower arrangement:
just two yellow daffodils,
the first to bloom
- L.A. Davidson, The Shape of the Tree
Haiku is What?
A Flower saying by a Florist
I know of no other genus whose plants flower out-of-doors
every day of the year. I know of no other genus with one
or more species coming into bloom or growth,
peaking or going dormant at every season.
- Nancy Goodwin, Cyclamen
A Flower saying by a Florist
They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream.
- Ernest Dowson, 1867 - 1900
A Flower saying by a Florist
Belladonna: In Italian, a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison.
-Ambrose Bierce
A Flower saying by a Florist
Where flowers bloom so does hope.
- Lady Bird Johnson, Public Roads: Where Flowers Bloom
A Flower saying by a Florist
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
A Flower saying by a Florist
Each flower is a soul opening out to nature.
- Gerald De Nerval
A Flower saying by a Florist
When bright flowers bloom
Parchment crumbles, my words fade
The pen has dropped ...
- Morpheus
A Flower saying by a Florist
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
- Heinrich Heine
A Flower saying by a Florist
The world is a rose; smell it and pass it to your friends.
- Persian Proverb
A Flower saying by a Florist
Are we, finally, speaking of nature or culture when
we speak of a rose (nature), that has been bred (culture)
so that its blossoms (nature) make men
imagine (culture) the sex of women (nature)?
It may be this sort of confusion that we need more of.
- Michael Pollan, Second Nature, 1991
A Flower saying by a Florist
The Earth Laughs in Flowers
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Flower saying by a Florist
Flowers are love's truest language.
- Park Benjamin
A Flower saying by a Florist
I will be the gladdest thing under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
A Flower saying by a Florist
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
A Flower saying by a Florist
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