“white calla lily has one petal; euphorbia has two; iris, lily and trillium have three; buttercup, columbine, larkspur pinks and wild rose… — V. Raghunathan Copy Share Image
Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“The rapid growth of Message- combined with an outpouring of florists offering consultations in the language of flowers to the streams of… — Vanessa Diffenbaugh Copy Share Image
“You stare at anything long enough and suddenly it looks monstrous.” She had in fact turned away from him to stare at… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“A wet autumn morning, a garbage truck clattering down the street. The first snowfall of the season, blossom sized flakes falling languidly… — Joyce carol Oates Copy Share Image
“He looked upon this verdant, blossoming spring, a spring Joanna would never see, he looked upon a field of brilliant blue flowers-… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
“From blossoms comes this brown paper bag of peaches we bought from the boy at the bend in the road where we… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
“Climb,” Matthew said, pointing to the top of a rise. “If you want to see her.” Though we couldn’t be far from… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
“After vindictive winter, apple blossoms seem all the more heaven-sent. Among flashing forsythia and budding rose, dogwood and daffodil, The allure of… — David B. Lentz Copy Share Image
A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Little gusts of sunshine blew, strangely bright, and lit up the celandines at the wood's edge, under the hazel-rods, they spangled out… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Endless love and voluptuous appetite pervaded this stifling nave in which settled the ardent sap of the tropics. Renée was wrapped in… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
“They'd entered a clearing. A wide, green meadow in the middle of the forest. The entire space was carpeted with bluebells. Thousands… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“Life is fragile Grace – it is no more than a petal of cherry blossom; thriving and in full bloom one minute… — Hazel Gaynor Copy Share Image
The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz, or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dressing table. "They'll… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
The weak grey light that serves as harbinger of red and golden dawn faintly lit my window. I fumbled for a candle,… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Centre placed? Or ever marked the… — Ovid Copy Share Image
“my brain is many colors, vague, like massed flowers: total spectrum of petals beginning with black. I wear my costume inside like… — Grace Butcher Copy Share Image
“The dawn of a color, blooms with a rose. Telling tales, meanings of vibrant with the red of fire. Loyalty extending like… — Alan Ascua Copy Share Image
My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of… — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Ephemerals: That's what Hub called them; flowers that bloomed and died in a matter of weeks, before the trees leafed out and… — Pamela Todd Copy Share Image
“Five girls sat beside, and upon the branches of, the oldest apple tree in the orchard, its huge trunk making a fine… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Sparhawk slowly lowered his eyes to look at the jewel he held in his fist. Though it appeared delicate, even fragile, he… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I moved deeper into the comforting gloom, along a stone walkway covered in cherry blossoms that lay like tenebrous snow in the… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“Dortchen ducked through a gap in the trees, following a winding path to a small grove of old linden trees, their branches… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
“Dark rocks stood waiting to be sculpted by the wind. Tiny seeds rode the air, waiting to fall and take root. Under… — Deborah Lawrenson Copy Share Image
“I read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,' said Priscilla. 'Then your soul is a golden narcissus,' said Anne, 'and Diana's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet… — Rudolf Otto Copy Share Image
“Roses climbed the shed, entwined with dark purple clematis, leaves as glossy as satin. There were no thorns. Patience's cupboard was overflowing… — Ellen Herrick Copy Share Image
“Some women feel the need to act like they're never scared, needy or hurt; like they're as hardened as a man. I… — Crystal Woods Copy Share Image
“The Green Rose by Stewart Stafford Through fractured eyes, I see the rose I once plucked, In another man's hands. And mistakes… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop,… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
If you're a guy, you should get girls flowers all the time. They never get old and you can never get them… — Alison Brie Copy Share Image
The 'Degrassi' producers were very supportive. They sent me flowers when I got 'The Vampire Diaries,' and then as soon as it… — Nina Dobrev Copy Share Image
“The Garden of Proserpine" Here, where the world is quiet; Here, where all trouble seems Dead winds' and spent waves' riot In… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image