Meaningful Quotes about Flowers Flowers.—Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.—Beecher. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch
In Eastern lands they talk in flowers,
And they tell in a garland their loves and cares:
Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers
On its leaves a mystic language bears.
—Percival.
How the universal heart of man blesses flowers! They are wreathed round the cradle, the marriage altar, and the tomb.—Mrs. L.M. Child.
There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness of its Heavenly Maker.—South.
Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them.—H.N. Hudson.
And with childlike credulous affection
We behold their tender buds expand;
Emblems of our own great resurrection,
Emblems of the bright and better land.
—Longfellow Many flowers open to the sun, but only one follows him constantly. Heart, be thou the sunflower, not only open to receive God's blessing, but constant in looking to Him.—Richter. Innocence is a flower which withers when touched, but blooms not again, though watered with tears.—Hooper. Who loves not the shady trees,
The smell of flowers, the sound of brooks,
The song of birds, and the hum of bees,
Murmuring in green and fragrant nooks,
The voice of children in the spring,
Along the field-paths wandering?
—T. Millar. | 
