Day 133 – A Hundred Flowers
“I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.” ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
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“I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.” ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
“I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.” ~ Edward Abbey
“Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
“The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.” ~ Henry Van Dyke
“The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.” ~ Harriet Ann Jacobs
“Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth’s lips spoken without sound.” ~ Edwin Curran
“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
“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