Bud Quote by Richard B. Garnett

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Thought is the bud, language the blossom and action the fruit behind it.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.

— James Douglas

As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Words themselves become beings, sentences becomenatural vegetation to be guided by the gardener's hands.

— Eric Sevareid

A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in half torpid…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath israrely found.

— Alexander Pope

Words are seeds they land in our hearts and not the ground. Be careful what you plant and careful what you say. You might…

— Ritu Ghatourey

All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Doesn't the world bring forth thinking in human heads with the same necessity that it brings forth blossoms on the plant?

— Carl Jung