Flower & flower garden proverbs & quotes

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Quotes are in no particular order

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into~Henry Beecher

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat~ Beverly Nichols

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses~Abraham Lincoln

And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies~ Marie Antoinette

If you pass by the color purple in a field and don't notice it, God gets real pissed off~Alice Walker

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits~William Carlos Williams

Each flower is a soul opening out to nature~Gerald De Nerval

Earth laughs in flowers~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where flowers bloom so does hope~Lady Bird Johnson

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers~Claude Monet

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers~Heinrich Heine

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books~Walt Whitman

Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes~William Wordsworth

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed~Walt Whitman

If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn~Andrew Mason

Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?~ Maurice Maeterlinck