Flower Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

The tree is but a huge boquet.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into

— Henry Ward Beecher

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is…

— Henry Ward Beecher

What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Some sorrows are but footprints in the snow, which the genial sun effaces, or, if it does not wholly efface, changes into…

— Henry Ward Beecher

As flowers always wear their own colors and give forth their own fragrance every day alike, so should Christians maintain their character…

— Henry Ward Beecher

October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

He who olny does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born inperfect. It is…

— Henry Ward Beecher

A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without…

— Henry Ward Beecher

To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under…

— Henry Ward Beecher

As flowers carry dewdrops, trembling on the edges of the petals, and ready to fall at the first waft of wind or…

— Henry Ward Beecher

What if the leaves were to fall a-weeping, and say, "It will be so painful for us to be pulled from our…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Love, in this world, is like a seed taken from the tropics, and planted where the winter comes too soon; and it…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to…

— Henry Ward Beecher

We have the promises of God as thick as daisies in summer meadows, that death, which men most fear, shall be to…

— Henry Ward Beecher

There can be no barrenness in full summer. The very sand will yield something. Rocks will have mosses, and every rift will…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The sun does not shine for a few trees, and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. The lonely pine on the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.

— Henry Ward Beecher

October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.

— Henry Ward Beecher

He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and…

— Henry Ward Beecher

To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under…

— Henry Ward Beecher

When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the…

— Henry Ward Beecher