Wildflowers Quotes

• Like wildflowers you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.

  Lorde

  People, Sunflower, Grows

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• No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.

  Sheryl Crow

  Spring, Middle Of Nowhere, Matter

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• Love is like wildflowers;
  It's often found in the most unlikely places.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love Is, Unlikely, Found

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• I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Flower, Long

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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  You belong among the wildflowers You belong in a boat out at sea You belong with your love on your arm You belong somewhere you feel free

  Tom Petty

  Sea, Arms, Boat

  Song: Wildflowers, Album: Wildflowers, 1994

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• If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Nature, Flower, Humility

  St. Therese of Lisieux (2013). “Story of a Soul The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux: Third Edition Translated from the Original Manuscripts”, p.24, ICS Publications

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• Where flowers bloom so does hope.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Hope, Spring, Flower

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• To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

  William Blake

  Nature, Flower, Eternity Of Life

  "Auguries of Innocence" l. 1 (ca. 1803)

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• Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.

  Nora Roberts

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Nora Roberts (2012). “Charmed: The Donovan Legacy”, p.13, Penguin

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• Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Garden, Childhood, Untamed

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• Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.

  Rumi

  Rocks, Littles, Sufi

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• Wildflowers don't care where they grow.

  Dolly Parton

  Flower, Care, Grows

  Song: Wildflowers, Album: Trio

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  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

  Inspirational, Happiness, Peace

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 1

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• One person's weed is another person's wildflower.

  Susan Wittig Albert

  Weed, Flower, Persons

  Susan Wittig Albert (2003). “AN Unthymely Death”, p.70, Penguin

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• Do you suppose she's a wildflower?

  Lewis Carroll

  "Fictional character: Daisy". "Alice in Wonderland", www.imdb.com. July 26, 1951.

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• If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Nature, Flower, Garden

  Quoted in N.Y. Post, 16 May 1946

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• Man has created some lovely dwellings, some soul-stirring literature. He has done much to alleviate physical pain. But he has not ... created a substitute for a sunset, a grove of pines, the music of the winds, the dank smell of the deep forest, or the shy beauty of a wildflower.

  Harvey Broome

  Pain, Sunset, Men

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• You belong somewhere you feel free.

  Tom Petty

  Feels, Petty

  Song: Wildflowers, Album: Wildflowers, 1994

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• Let me drink from the waters where the mountain streams flood Let the smell of wildflowers flow free through my blood Let me sleep in your meadows with the green grassy leaves Let me walk down the highway with my brother in peace Let me die in my footsteps Before I go down under the ground.

  Bob Dylan

  Brother, Sleep, Journey

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Flower, Sadness, Garden

  Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.84, Tuttle Publishing

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• Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Heart, Stuff, My Heart

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• All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seed of today.

  Croft M. Pentz

  Flower, Blooming, Blossoming

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• I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

  Claude Monet

  Art, Nature, Flower

  Claire Joyes, Claude Monet (1975). “Monet at Giverny”, Wh Smith Pub

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• Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

  John Steinbeck

  Change, Men, Wind

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.57, Penguin

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• Some may wonder why I chose wildflowers when there are hunger and unemployment and the big bomb in the world. Well, I, for one, think we will survive, and I hope that along the way we can keep alive our experience with the flowering earth. For the bounty of nature is also one of the deep needs of man.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Men, Thinking, Earth

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