Flower Quote by Elizabeth Gaskell

“Beauty was all around them. Unsuspected tintings glimmered in the dark demesnes of the woods and glowed in their alluring by-ways. The spring sunshine…

— L.M. Montgomery

Plants were bound for good or ill to their places. They expressed not only beauty but also the thoughts of God's world, with an…

— Carl Jung

Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full glow and…

— Charles Dickens

By night we lingered on the lawn, For underfoot the herb was dry; And genial warmth; and o'er the sky The silvery haze of…

— Alfred Tennyson

It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day; the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery…

— Washington Irving

The lime trees were in bloom. But in the early morning only a faint fragrance drifted through the garden, an airy message, an aromatic…

— Isak Dinesen

It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden…

— Ellen Glasgow

It was one of those sumptuous days when the world is full of autumn muskiness and tangy, crisp perfection: vivid blue sky, deep green…

— Bill Bryson

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The leaves had fallen from the trees and lay crisp and crackling beneath his feet. Picking one up he marveled, not for the first…

— Louise Penny

The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over…

— William C. Bryant

“The soft scent of freshly fallen leaves tenderly permeated a forest ignited to a flaming brilliance with sizzling reds, burning oranges, and electric yellows.…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough