Flowers Quote by Amany Al-Hallaq

As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.

— Anthony de Mello

“A land of wheat, barley, vines, figs, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey. Deuteronomy 8:8”

— Beth Moore

“Methinks I see the sunset light flooding the river valley, the western hills stretching to the horizon, overhung with trees gorgeous and glowing with…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

The earth with yellow pearsAnd overgrown with roses wildUpon the pond is bent,And swans divine,With kisses drunkYou drop your headsIn the sublimely sobering water.But…

— Friedrich Holderlin

In Eastern lands they talk in flowers, And they tell in a garland their loves and cares; Each blossom that blooms in their garden…

— James Gates Percival

“Planting a flower in the desert takes greater skill than growing a garden in a rain forest.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

The flowers are ravined by bees, the fruit blossoms are thrown to the ground, the wind the rain forces everything.

— Charles Olson

Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad;         the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus;     2 it shall blossom abundantly         and…

— Crossway

“But,...we should first learn the winds and the nature of the sky, the customary cultivation and the ways of the place. What each region…

— Virgil

“On the banks of the Euphrates find a secret garden cunningly walled. There is an entrance, but the entrance is guarded. There is no…

— Jeanette Winterson

I return to the newborn world, and the soft-soil fields, What their first birthing lifted to the shores Of light, and trusted to the…

— Lucretius