Flowers/Gardens

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When you take a flower... and really look at it, it's your world for the moment.
~Georgia O'Keeffe

Flowers... a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

In shining groups, each stem a pearly ray...
~Mary Thatcher Higginson

The lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
~William Wordsworth

There are no such things as Flowers -- there are only gladdened Leaves.
~John Ruskin

Bloom where you're planted.

Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade.
~Rudyard Kipling

Did you know... that when you walk past a flower, whether it be in somebody's garden or on a vacant hillside, the flower will always smile at you. The most polite way to respond, I've been told, is to cheerfully return the smile.
~ Ron Atchison

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
~ William Blake

St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden when someone asked what he would do if he were suddenly to learn that he would die before sunset that very day. "I would finish hoeing my garden," he replied.
~ Louis Fischer

The golden crocus reaches up
To catch a sunbeam in her cup.
~ Walter Crane

Flowers are nature's jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty.
~Croly