Flowers Quote by Richelle E. Goodrich

“In Summer there were white and damask roses, and the smell of thyme and musk. In Spring there were green gooseberries and throstles [thrush],…

— Beatrix Potter

“In no time the perennial borders were thick with rosy-pink foxglove and cream-colored lilies, each of which hung like a pendant, collecting dew on…

— Alice Hoffman

And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light, Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer; Their pure breath sanctifies the air, As its…

— Julia Caroline Dorr

'Tis spring; come out to ramble The hilly brakes around, For under thorn and bramble About the hollow ground The primroses are found. And…

— A. E. Housman

I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too.

— John Keats

“Agatha surveys the garden, its rows of crinkled spring cabbages and beanstalks entwining bowers of hawthorn and hazel. The rosemary is dotted with pale…

— Sarah Bower

We lavender folk spray up, spontaneously flowering in the color we had learned as an identifying mark of our culture when it was subterranean…

— Judy Grahn

“A lush clematis vine, its sweet vanilla scent calming and comforting, climbs over tented bamboo poles to form her reading fort. White jasmine flowers…

— Meg Donohue

“Beyond these the flowers were more frequent, but paler, less glossy, more thickly seeded, more tightly folded, and disposed, by accident, in festoons so…

— Marcel Proust

“Working on the native-herb garden in the front corner of the yard. Already thriving: thyme, hyssop, spearmint, lemon balm, fennel, chamomile, marjoram. Must add:…

— Neal Stephenson

“The night folded around them with a sweetness and poignancy heightened by the new pale stars that prickled silver fire in the water of…

— Pauline Gedge

“Before the blue of night meets the pink of sunrise, there is a transition of lavender. It's a gradient of color that stretches its…

— Jarod Kintz