A Flower saying by a Florist
Who can estimate the elevating and refining influences and moral value of flowers with all their graceful forms, bewitching shades and combinations of colors and exquisitely varied perfumes? These silent influences are unconsciously felt even by those who do not appreciate them consciously and thus with better and still better fruits, nuts, grains, vegetables and flowers, will the earth be transformed, man's thought refined, and turned from the base destructive forces into nobler production. One which will lift him to high planes of action toward the happy day when the Creator of all this beautiful work is more acknowledged and loved, and where man shall offer his brother man, not bullets and bayonets, but richer grains, better fruit and fairer flowers from the bounty of this earth. - Father George Schoener (1864 -1941),

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

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
Take time to smell the roses. - Gardening Cliches

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
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

A Flower saying by a Florist
Observe this dew-drenched rose of Tyrian gardens A rose today. But you will ask in vain Tomorrow what it is; and yesterday It was the dust, the sunshine, and the rains. - Christina Rosetti

A Flower saying by a Florist
There are philosophies as varied as the flowers of the field, and some of them weeds and a few of them poisonous weeds. But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower. - G. K. Chesterton

A Flower saying by a Florist
Since Iris is the Greek goddess for the Messenger of Love, her sacred flower is considered the symbol of communication and messages. Greek men would often plant an iris on the graves of their beloved women as a tribute to the goddess Iris, whose duty it was to take the souls of women to the Elysian fields. - Hana No Monogatari: The Stories of Flowers

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

A Flower saying by a Florist
In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, with many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love, With every leaf a miracle - and from this bush in the dooryard, With delicate-color'd blossoms and heart-shaped leaves of rich green, A sprig with its flower I break. - Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1865

A Flower saying by a Florist
If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad. - John Lancaster Spalding, Aphorisms and Reflections

A Flower saying by a Florist
Forsythia is pure joy. There is not an ounce, not a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia. Pure, undiluted, untouched joy. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A Flower saying by a Florist
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy. - Lope de Vega

A Flower saying by a Florist
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

A Flower saying by a Florist
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. - Claude Monet

A Flower saying by a Florist
In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger. - Issa

A Flower saying by a Florist
Flowers are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and siting in the shade. - Rudyard Kipling

A Flower saying by a Florist
`Uo `ia i ka manai ho`okahi. Strung like flowers on the same lei needle. Married. Hawaiian Proverbs

A Flower saying by a Florist
Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees, takes off his shoes - The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries. - Elizabeth Barrett Brownbing

A Flower saying by a Florist
Different flowers look good to different people Pick the flower when it is ready to be picked. The flower that you spent time to care for does not grow while the willow that your accidentally planted flourishes and gives shade. - Chinese Proverbs

A Flower saying by a Florist
Little flower, but if I could understand, what you are, root and all in all, I should know what God and man is. - Tennyson

A Flower saying by a Florist
He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world with a passion for flowers in his soul. - Celia Thaxter

A Flower saying by a Florist
True friendship is like a rose: we don't realize its beauty until it fades. - Evelyn Loeb

A Flower saying by a Florist
If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft, And of thy meager store Two loaves alone to thee are left, Sell one, and with the dole Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul. - Sheikh Muslih-uddin Saadi Shirazi, The Gulistan of Saadi, 1270

A Flower saying by a Florist
As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower. - Edward Thomas, 1878-1917

A Flower saying by a Florist
In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. - Abram L. Urban

A Flower saying by a Florist
In friendship's fragrant garden, There are flowers of every hue. Each with its own fair beauty And its gift of joy for you. - Friendship's Garden

A Flower saying by a Florist
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. - Jean Giraudoux

A Flower saying by a Florist
None can have a healthy love for flowers unless he loves the wild ones. - Forbes Watson

A Flower saying by a Florist
The old tree is shook White blossoms slowly float down Dancers in the wind - Alexandra Kim

A Flower saying by a Florist
From a thorn comes a rose, and from a rose comes a thorn. Greek Proverb

A Flower saying by a Florist
He who wants a rose must respect the thorn. Persian Proverb

A Flower saying by a Florist
The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. - Chinese proverb

A Flower saying by a Florist
But ne'er the rose without the thorn. - Robert Herrick

A Flower saying by a Florist
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. - Abraham Lincoln

A Flower saying by a Florist
This old world that we're livin' in Is might hard to beat. You get a thorn with every Rose But - ain't the roses sweet? - Frank Stanton

A Flower saying by a Florist
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses. - Alphonse Karr (1808-1890)

A Flower saying by a Florist
Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses - Ovid

A Flower saying by a Florist
Nullum est iam dictum quod non dictum sit prius. Nothing is said that hasn't been said before. - Terence, Eunuchus

A Flower saying by a Florist
Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again. - Goethe

A Flower saying by a Florist
In the hope of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. - Albert Schweitzer

A Flower saying by a Florist
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not. - Georgia O'Keeffe

A Flower saying by a Florist
Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive. - John Keats

A Flower saying by a Florist
If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much a garden of flowers as of colours and tones, less an old-fashioned flower garden than a colour garden, so to speak, one that achieves an effect not entirely nature's, because it was planted so that only the flowers with matching colours will bloom at the same time, harmonized in an infinite stretch of blue or pink. - Marcel Proust, "Splendours". Le Figaro, June 15, 1907

A Flower saying by a Florist
It will never rain roses. When we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses. - George Eliot

A Flower saying by a Florist
At dawn I asked the lotus, 'What is the meaning of life?' Slowly she opened her hand with nothing in it. - Debra Woolard Bender, Paper Lanterns

A Flower saying by a Florist
Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them. - Victoria Glendinning

A Flower saying by a Florist