Genus-species Quote by Holly Ringland

“And somehow Hallie thrived anyway--the blossom of our family, like one of those miraculous fruit trees that taps into an invisible vein of nurture…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“The feathery palms that lined the drainage canals, the acacia thorns and sycamores, all glistened with the sheen of new, pale-green leaves, and in…

— Pauline Gedge

“I think,' said Lyndall, 'that he is like a thorn-tree, which grows up very quietly, without any one's caring for it, and one day…

— Olive Schreiner

“The forest is blanketed by the greenest ferns and moss and bonsai-like trees, a wild majesty that beckons hobbits and pixies and elves and…

— Shannon M Mullen

A second blow of many flowers appears, flowers faintly tinged and breathing no perfume; but fruits, not blossoms, form the woodland wreath that circles…

— James Grahame

Bright flower! whose home is everywhere Bold in maternal nature's care And all the long year through the heir Of joy or sorrow, Methinks…

— William Wordsworth

Outside the youth center, between the liquor store and the police station, a little dogwood tree is losing its mind; overflowing with blossomfoam, like…

— Tony Hoagland

“And many a brimming water-urn. Tall trees their hallowed branches spread, Laden with pleasant fruit, o'erhead;”

— Vālmīki

There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; There with fantastic garlands did she come…

— William Shakespeare

Bulb: potential flower buried in Autumn, never to be seen again.

— Henry Beard

Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets…

— Rumi

“The Garden of Proserpine" Here, where the world is quiet; Here, where all trouble seems Dead winds' and spent waves' riot In doubtful dreams…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne