Flower Quotes by Jean Hersey

Flowers speak to us if we listen. Appreciating the blossom in hand or pausing in the garden to admire the beauty quiets our outer…

— Jean Hersey

June is the gateway to summer.

— Jean Hersey

November is chill, frosted mornings with a silver sun rising behind the trees, red cardinals at the feeders, and squirrels running scallops along the…

— Jean Hersey

October arrives in a swirl of fragrant blue leaf smoke, the sweetness of slightly frosted MacIntosh apples, and little hard acorns falling. We are…

— Jean Hersey

My prayer for the new year is that I may have the courage and the stamina to let Life happen to me, to accept…

— Jean Hersey

I love planting bulbs. It is making promises with tomorrow, believing in next year and the future.

— Jean Hersey

Lilacs are May in essence.

— Jean Hersey

July is hollyhocks and hammocks, fireworks and vacations, hot and steamy weather, cool and refreshing swims, beach picnics, and vegetables all out of the…

— Jean Hersey

January is the month for dreaming.

— Jean Hersey

A flower is a daisy chain, a graduation, a valentine; a flower is New Year's Eve and an orchid in your hair; a flower…

— Jean Hersey

Some days confidence shrinks to the size of a pea, and the backbone feels like a feather. We want to be somewhere else, and…

— Jean Hersey

When you plant early, you bring spring early.

— Jean Hersey

August is ripening grain in the fields blowing hot and sunny, the scent of tree-ripened peaches, of hot buttered sweet corn on the cob.…

— Jean Hersey

In July everybody you telephone is somewhere else - either on the beach or on vacation, and half the time you're somewhere else too.

— Jean Hersey

In March winter is holding back and spring is pulling forward. Something holds and something pulls inside of us too.

— Jean Hersey