Flowers and Gardens
Alfred Lord Tennyson
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
A modest garden . . . contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
D.H. Lawrence
Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and darker stairs, where blue is darkened on blueness even where Persephone goes, just now, from the frosted September to the sightless realm where darkness is awake upon the dark.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
All night have the roses heard The flute, violin, bassoon; All night has the casement jessamine stirr’d To the dancers dancing in tune; Till a silence fell with the waking bird, And a hush with the setting moon.
Georgia O'Keeffe
I hate flowers—I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.
Georgia O'Keeffe
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.
Oscar Wilde
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Erica Jong
Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.
Henry David Thoreau
Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.