Gardening Quote by Eve Babitz

“Wildflowers burst from the ground in vivid blues and whites and violets, creating a picture more pleasing than anything her hands could design. She…

— Katie Ganshert

“...she was fantasizing about riding a horse through a meadow...The perfume of wildflowers wafted to her nose as the sun warmed her face.”

— Carla Reighard

“We stepped a little quicker, laughed a little louder and chatted over the fences a little longer. We gathered bouquets of wildflowers, dined on…

— Arlene Stafford-Wilson

“At the edge of the lot, wildflowers had taken over, forming a thick border. I stopped to pick a bouquet of gold buttercups and…

— Mary Simses

“To him, she was like a flower that bloomed in the snow. Thriving under conditions in which nothing could grow. To some, she was…

— A.Y. Greyson

“Springtime, she thought, before the heat comes and crushes the leaves into pulp and withers the petals off the flowers.”

— Cassandra Clare

“I am a wildflower in your perfect bed of roses.”

— Melody Lee

“I used to pick wildflowers to bring cheer indoors. Prudence would turn right around and throw them out. Said, “If God wanted flowers in…

— Leah Weiss

“The wild roses were wide open and brilliant, the blue-eyed grass was in purple flower, and the silvery milkweed was just coming on.”

— Willa Cather

“Sprays of blue and purpose wildflowers grew along the bank, and as she ran past them Ella marked their beauty, thinking what a strange…

— Wiley Cash

“She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines.”

— Nenia Campbell

“I watched her shuffle around, reading tags and smelling flowers, laughing every time or smiling nice—what flowers were supposed to make you do.”

— Jennifer Gooch Hummer