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I am your moon and your moonlight too I am your flower garden and your water too I have come all this way, eager for you Without shoes or shawl I want you to laugh To kill all your worries To love you To nourish you.
Sep 10, 2025
The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.
Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.
With understanding, those we love will certainly flower.
Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
The spring's already at the gate With looks my care beguiling; The country round appeareth straight A flower-garden smiling.
There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.
Whoever is sitting with friends is in the midst of a flower garden, though he may be in the fire. Whoever sits with an enemy is in the fire, even though he is in the midst of a garden.
Somewhere the sense makes copper roses steel roses — The rose carried weight of love but love is at an end — of roses It is at the edge of the petal that love waits.
Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child.
Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.
I must have flowers, always, and always.
Who would have thought it possible that a tiny flower could preoccupy a person so completely that there simply wasn't room for any other thought.
Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
Gardening is one of the rewards of middle age, when one is ready for an impersonal passion, a passion that demands patience, acute awareness of a world outside oneself, and the power to keep on growing through all the times of drought, through the cold snows, towards those moments of pure joy when all failures are forgotten and the plum tree flowers.
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence.
Fair, rich confusion is all the aim of an old-fashioned flower garden, and the greater the confusion, the richer. You want to come upon mignonnette in unexpected places, and to find sprays of heliotrope in close consultation with your roses, and geraniums sporting their uniforms like gay recruits off duty.
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time, so seems it as if the flowers, in musing modesty, await the mantling eventide ere they give themselves up wholly to feeling...
If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.
To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
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.
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Where flowers bloom so does hope.
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful.
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
All of us are called by something in this world that attracts us. And it doesn't matter what it is - you can be an engine mechanic or an aviator or you can be someone who loves their flower garden or the world of commerce or sailboats.
The tints of autumn...a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.
One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error.
In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.
To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.
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.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.