Orchids Quotes

• The orchid is Mother Nature's masterpiece.

  Robyn

  Mother, Mother Nature, Masterpiece

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• An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it.

  Confucius

  Appreciate, Forests, Fragrance

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• When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and the fragrance of rock.

  Stephen Mitchell

  Heart, Rocks, Simplicity

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• An enchanting harmony of fuchsia, purple and pink undertones, Radiant Orchid inspires confidence and emanates great joy, love and health. It is a captivating purple, one that draws you in with its beguiling charm.

  Leatrice Eiseman

  Purple, Joy, Inspire

  "Pantone's Radiant Orchid is 2014's Color of the Year" by Eun Kyung Kim, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume.

  Sara Jeannette Duncan

  Best Friend, Strong, Cute Friendship

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• Just as I wonder
  whether it's going to die,
  the orchid blossoms
  and I can't explain why it
  moves my heart, why such pleasure
  comes from one small bud
  on a long spindly stem, one
  blood red gold flower
  opening at mid-summer,
  tiny, perfect in its hour.

  Sam Hamill

  Summer, Spring, Flower

  Sam Hamill (2002). “Dumb Luck: Poems”, p.88, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.

  Myrtle Reed

  Love Is, Air, Hot

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• You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious.

  Lynn Viehl

  Beautiful, Weed, Ugly

  Lynn Viehl (2009). “Stay the Night: A Novel of the Darkyn”, p.30, Penguin

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• We humans think we are smart, but an orchid, for example, knows how to produce noble, symmetrical flowers, and a snail knows how to make a beautiful, well-proportioned shell. Compared with their knowledge, ours is not worth much at all. We should bow deeply before the orchid and the snail and join our palms reverently before the monarch butterfly and the magnolia tree. The feeling of respect for all species will help us recognize the noblest nature in ourselves.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Respect, Nature

  Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

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• If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me pleasure.

  Lee Radziwill

  Giving, Reason, Pleasure

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• Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Evolution, Made, Jury

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Morning, Sin

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.544, Wordsworth Editions

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• Human beings aren't orchids; we must draw something from the soil we grow in.

  Sara Jeannette Duncan

  Acceptance, Soil, Draws

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• For other people, love is like some rare orchid that can only grow in one place under a certain set of conditions. For me it's like bindweed. It grows with no encouragement at all, under any conditions, and just strangles everything else.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Encouragement, Love Is, People

  Scarlett Thomas (2010). “Our Tragic Universe”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.

  Susan Orlean

  Hunting, Occupation, Mortals

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• I have become an orchid
  washed in on the salt white beach.
  Memory,
  what can I make of it now
  that might please you-
  this life, already wasted
  and still strewn with miracles?

  Mary Ruefle

  Beach, Memories, White

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• I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.

  Beau Bridges

  Flower, Garden, Vegetables

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.

  Rachel Cusk

  Lying, Toxic Waste, Lovely

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• I hated roses. I hated them for being so trite, so clichéd, a default, all-purpose flower that said I love you, I'm sorry, and get well soon. Give me peonies and tulips, orchids or gardenia. Those were flowers with character.

  Justina Chen

  Sorry, Get Well Soon, Flower

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• One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra orchid... One wants... But one so seldom gets what one wants, does one?

  Tony Kushner

  Zebras, Moving, Perfect

  Tony Kushner (2013). “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition”, p.31, Theatre Communications Group

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• Have you ever noticed how much they look like orchids? lovely!

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Lovely, Looks

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• You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.

  William Faulkner

  Sleep, Men, Flesh

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• She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. Tally Youngblood was a weed. And, unlike the orchids, she wasn't even a pretty one.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Weed, Selfish, Soil

  Scott Westerfeld (2015). “Uglies & Pretties: Uglies; Pretties”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• A flower is a daisy chain, a graduation, a valentine; a flower is New Year's Eve and an orchid in your hair; a flower is a single geranium blooming in a tin can on a murky city fire-escape; an acre of roses at the Botanical Gardens; and the first gold crocus of spring! ... a flower is a birth, a wedding, a leaving of this life.

  Jean Hersey

  New Year, Spring, Valentine

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• To rise above treeline is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into bird song, bog orchids, willows, and firs is to sink into the preliterate parts of ourselves.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Song, Nature, Bird

  Gretel Ehrlich (1992). “Islands, the universe, home”, Penguin Group USA

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