Day 103 – Tulips Jostle
“Daffodils, blossom and tulips jostle to the front of the stage in April. I love these early perennials: they may be more modest but they nearly all have that one special quality that a plant […]
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“Daffodils, blossom and tulips jostle to the front of the stage in April. I love these early perennials: they may be more modest but they nearly all have that one special quality that a plant […]
“The April rain, the April rain,Comes slanting down in fitful showers,Then from the furrow shoots the grain,And banks are fledged with nestling flowers;And in grey shawl and woodland bowersThe cuckoo through the April rainCalls once […]
“A flower does not use words to announce its arrival to the world; it just blooms.” ~ Matshona Dhliwayo
“Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.” ~ Jim Carrey
“But I have always thought that these tulips must have had names. They were red, and orange and red, and red and orange and yellow, like the ember in a nursery fire of a winter’s […]
“Forsythia is pure joy. There is not an ounce, not a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia. Pure, undiluted, untouched joy.” ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for a moment.” ~ Georgia O’Keeffe
“A long time ago, there were lovers that lived on the opposite ends of a river. They promised to meet when the camellia flowers bloomed. But it rained so much the boat couldn’t cross the […]
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.” ~ Pablo Neruda
“It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly […]