Alas Quote by Emily Dickinson

Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered...sealed away for opening on a January day with…

— Ray Bradbury

And there, row upon row, with the soft gleam of flowers opened at morning, with the light of this June sun glowing through a…

— Ray Bradbury

“Few things are harder to visualise than that a cold snowbound landscape, so marrow-chillingly quiet and lifeless, will, within mere months, be green and…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.

— Andrew Mason

One flower may slay the winter and meet death.

— Hilda Doolittle

Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world. If dandelions were hard to grow,…

— Andrew Mason

It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

You fight dandelions all weekend, and late Monday afternoon there they are, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom, pretty as…

— Hal Borland

The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.

— James Russell Lowell

However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom.

— Madame de Stael

The tints of autumn...a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding…

— Aldo Leopold