Flora Quotes
48 quotes by 33 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world.
— Richard Allen
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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
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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
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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
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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: