Flower Appreciation Quotes

The daisy is fair, the day-lily rare, The bud o' the rose as sweet as it's bonnie.

A passion for flowers, is, I think, the only one which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.

wild flowers should be enjoyed unplucked where they grow.

Nasturtiums, who colored you, you wonderful, glowing things? You must have been fashioned out of summer sunsets.

One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.

I always notice flowers.

He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.

I love blue in all its shades and textures. I wear navy like others wear black, and I love the blue in flowers - cornflowers, delphiniums.

Brave old-flowers! Wall-flowers, Gilly flowers, Stocks! For even as the field-flowers, from which a trifle, a ray of beauty, a drop of perfume, divides them, they have charming names, the softest in the language; and each of them, like tiny, art-less ex-votos, or like medals bestowed by the gratitude of men, proudly bears three or four.

A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena, and to reason upon them. It would occupy the mind with pure thoughts, and inspire a sweet and gentle enthusiasm; maintain simplicity of taste; and ... unfold in the heart an enlarged, unstraightened, ardent piety.

Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies, Let them live upon their praises.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Rose is the most beautiful flower - it and tuberose are my favourites.

I'd go without food if I could have a flower.