Flora Quotes

48 quotes by 33 authors

I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual… — Jacqueline Bisset
The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of… — John Ruskin
The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing… — Aldo Leopold
Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the… — Edward Abbey
Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to be. Nobody talks… — Ketzel Levine
Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe. — Thomas Starr King
Our difficulty is that we have become autistic. We no longer listen to what the Earth, its landscape, its atmospheric phenomena and all its living… — Thomas Berry
Also known as May Eve, May Day, and Walpurgis Night, happens at the beginning of May. It celebrates the height of Spring and the flowering… — Selena Fox
With the goal of crafting a course that fits harmoniously with its surroundings, we took full advantage of the dramatic vistas, indigenous flora and beautiful… — Pete Dye
The public never appears to tire of endless courses of strawberries and cream, and the theory that you run the risk of boring people with… — Peter Bodo
When bow-hunting, you find you get closer to the woodland critters. The flora and the forest floor becomes clearer. You look at things more closely.… — Fred Bear
I can't think of any flower that wouldn't be suitable to merge with an image of a newborn, and as I was planning for the… — Anne Geddes
Shy gold begins to peep through the sombre green - the wattle's wedding dress - and Spring is near. Then suddenly it seems, one golden… — C. J. Dennis
Trees are, after all, our largest and oldest living things. They are Australia's natural, national treasures - the true Elders of our vast continent. — Richard Allen
The celebrated Aboriginal painter Albert Namatjira loved the Ghost Gums of the Northern Territory... They are evocatively Australian, their white trunks contrasting with the red… — Richard Allen
According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world. — Richard Allen
The design of the gum is expressed in the flow of it trunk and limbs, and the design of the European tree mainly in its… — Hans Heysen
There is an infinity of landscape here, caused by the purity of the atmosphere. It has been said that there is a lack of colour.… — Hans Heysen
Meditation is another dimension of natural beauty. People talk about appreciating natural beauty-climbing mountains, seeing giraffes and tigers in Africa, and all sorts of things.… — Chogyam Trungpa
I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal. — Jack Dorsey

Who Wrote These Flora Quotes

33 authors contributed a total of 48 Flora Quotes, led by these top contributors: