Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Where flowers bloom so does hope.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seed of today.
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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.
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
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