Reading These Flower Quotes Will Have You Feeling Fresh as a Daisy
There's something about flowers that just draws you in. Whether it's their sweet fragrance, natural beauty or hidden meaning, a single glance at a colorful bouquet or a wildflower on the side of the road is enough to cure any bad day. In life and art, flowers symbolize new beginnings. As winter comes to a close, the blooming of hyacinths, bluebells, and lilacs signals the return of spring. Given the fast-approaching season of growth, we listed some of the best quotes about flowers, and they're blooming with joy!
There are so many lovely flower quotes—equally as inspiring as our uplifting quotes and just as radiant as our spring quotes. Many of the sayings on this list pay homage to the show-stopping colors and scents of flowers, like these words from novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch: "People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us." But others use flowers as a metaphor for a greater message about love and life. Take Sheryl Crow's words, for instance: "No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere."
No matter what kind of quote you're looking for, browsing through this list will definitely make you want to stop and smell the roses!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it."
Pablo Neruda
"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming."
Écouchard Lebrun
"The butterfly is a flying flower, the flower a tethered butterfly."
Zen Shin
"A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities in the world."
Erin Hanson
"She sprouted love like flowers, grew a garden in her mind, and even on the darkest days, from her smile the sun still shined."
Ken Petti
“Every flower blooms in its own time.”
Jim Carrey
“Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.”
Matshona Dhliwayo
“If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.”
Bryant McGill
“Open the bloom of your heart and become a gift of beauty to the world.”
Stephanie Skeem
“Flowers don’t tell, they show.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.”
Joseph Joubert
“Politeness is the flower of humanity.”
Stephen Richards
“Minds are like flowers; they open only when the time is right.”
Dorothea Dix
“The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love – the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.”
Lady Bird Johnson
“Where flowers bloom so does hope.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Love is like wildflowers; it’s often found in the most unlikely places.”
John Harrigan
“Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.”
Frances Hodgson Burnett
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
Dr. Sunwolf
“Flowers whisper ‘Beauty!’ to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall.”
Roland R. Kemler
“What a lonely place it would be to have a world without a wildflower!”
Claudia Adrienne Grandi
“If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.”
Carole Radziwill
“The very best relationship has a gardener and a flower. The gardener nurtures and the flower blooms.”
Walter Hagen
“You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.”
Proverb
“Take time to smell the roses.”
Oscar Wilde
"A flower blossoms for its own joy."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The earth laughs in flowers."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"It's the time that you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important."
Sheryl Crow
"No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere."
Christian Dior
"After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world."
Buddha
“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.”
Audrey Hepburn
"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow."
Luther Burbank
"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul."
Steve Maraboli
"Don't let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden."
Stefano Gabbana
"To me, flowers are happiness."
Gerard De Nerval
"Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature."
Hans Christian Andersen
"Just living is not enough...one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
Victor Hugo
"A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in—what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars."
John Lennon
"Love is the flower you've got to grow."
Luther Burbank
"Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul."
Lady Bird Johnson
"Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers."
Okakura Kakuzo
"In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends."
Shannon Mullen
"Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots."
Robert A. Heinlein
"Butterflies are self-propelled flowers."
Max Muller
"A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love."
Iris Murdoch
"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."
Victor Hugo
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."
Heinrich Heine
"Perfumes are the feelings of flowers."
Theodore Roethke
"Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light."
Rumi
"A rose's rarest essence lives in the thorn."
Henri Matisse
"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."
Kahlil Gibran
"The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose."
Kurt Vonnegut
"Flowers didn’t ask to be flowers and I didn’t ask to be me."
Isaac Hayes
"If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears."
Japanese Proverb
"Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands."
Henry David Thoreau
"One of the most attractive things about flowers is their beautiful reserve."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"A weed is but an unloved flower."
A.A. Milne
"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."
Clare Ansberry
"Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, dragging them from their homes."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into."
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