Flowers Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Years ago, when she'd studied the constructions of stem, blade, stamen, ovule, she loved the infinite possibilities of the plant kingdom- but she had…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

“the literary equivalent of tearing the petals off and grinding them up and running the goo through a spectrometer to explain why a rose…

— David Foster Wallace

“Beauty, the world seemed to say. And as if to prove it (scientifically) wherever he looked at the houses, at the railings, at the…

— Virginia Woolf

Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assuduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in the vigor…

— Washington Irving

“The thorns we endure in life are but shadowed by the precious petals of a rosey outlook.”

— Andrew Pacholyk

“A rose does not diminish in beauty because it has thorns.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“destroying beauty a rose red sunlight; I take it apart in the garage like a puzzle: the petals are as greasy as old bacon…

— Charles Bukowski

“She was a rare white rose in a kingdom of thorns, and she wouldn’t let anyone stain her petals red.”

— Alex Johnson

“The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses. - Ovid”

— Inglath Cooper

“My wife comes foremost; then the honour'd mould Wherein this trunk was framed, and in her hand The grandchild to her blood. But, out,…

— William Shakespeare