Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
Ever since I could remember anything, flowers have been like dear friends to me, comforters, inspirers, powers to uplift and to cheer. — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
To stand by the beds at sunrise and see the flowers awake is a heavenly delight. — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
When the snow is still blowing against the window-pane in January and February and the wild winds are howling without, what pleasure… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
As I hold the flower in my hand and think of trying to describe it, I realize how poor a creature I… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with them, and adoring them as if… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
Soon will set in the fitful weather, with fierce gales and sullen skies and frosty air, and it will be time to… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
Like the musician, the painter, the poet, and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. And he is… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
So deeply is the gardener's instinct implanted in my soul, I really love the tools with which I work; the iron fork,… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
Last week, when I went early into my garden, a rose-breasted grosbeak was sitting on the fence. Oh, he was beautiful as… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
The heart of God through his creation stirs, We thrill to feel it, trembling as the flowers That die to live again,… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
Oh, I never meant, in my old age, to become subject to the thrall of a love like this; it is almost… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
As the days go on toward July, the earth becomes dry and all the flowers begin to thirst for moisture. Then from… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share
It is curious that the leaf should so love the light and the root so hate it. — Celia Thaxter Copy Share
When the snow is still blowing against the window-pane in January and February and the wild winds are howling without, what pleasure it is… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share
Peacefully The quiet stars came out, one after one; The holy twilight fell upon the sea, The summer day was done. — Celia Thaxter Copy Share
I am fully and intensely aware that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else. — Celia Thaxter Copy Share
Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound. For a dangerous ledge… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share
The toad has indeed no superior as a destroyer of noxious insects, and he possesses no bad habits and is entirely inoffensive himself, every… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share
So deeply is the gardener's instinct implanted in my soul, I really love the tools with which I work; the iron fork, the spade,… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share
“Who shall compass or fathom God's thought profound? We can but praise, for we may not understand; But there's no more beautiful riddle the… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share
O brief, bright smile of summer! O days divine and dear The voices of winter's sorrow Already we can hear. And we know that… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share
This very act of planting a seed in the earth has in it to me something beautiful. I always do it with a joy… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share
O happy, happy morning! O dear, familiar place! / O warm, sweet tears of Heaven, fast falling on my face! / O well-remembered, rainy… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share
Last week, when I went early into my garden, a rose-breasted grosbeak was sitting on the fence. Oh, he was beautiful as a flower.… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share
