#flower

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers. ↗

— May Sarton

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The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. ↗

— George Balanchine

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A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers. ↗

— Eddie Cantor

#flowers #funeral #own #smell #wedding

The Japanese say, If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated. ↗

— Lester Cole

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Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots. ↗

— Nicholas Culpeper

#flowers #fruits #herbs #out #roots

I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere. ↗

— Ray Davies

#get #i #just #more #person

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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If Terri was upset about how silly she would look, her mother was completely undone. Seems she wanted Terri in her full natural bloom, not with any blooming flower. ↗

— Audrey Meadows

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Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue? ↗

— James Montgomery

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I always figure I have this tree and there's always some green fruit that's not ready to pick or blossoms that are ready to flower; there are always some ready to drop off too. ↗

— Graeme Murphy

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