Blame Quote by R. Buckminster Fuller

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

— D. H. Lawrence

Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

— Victor Hugo

I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.

— Gore Vidal

The root and the flower have to trust each other. If the root does not trust, the plant won't blossom.

— William Stafford

And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot.

— Ben Jonson

Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

— Robert Frost

I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees.

— Sue Townsend

If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sometimes you have to wait for that root to grow into a beautiful flower.

— Alyssa Tillmon

Many people do not allow their principles to take root, but pull them up every now and then, as children do the flowers they…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When a flower doesn't bloom you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.

— Alexander Den Heijer

Nature with her wealth of birds and flowers, Has in her heart a place for every weed; For her quick eyes require no microscope…

— Kobo Abe