There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords. ~John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, 1916

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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. ~Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858

Earth laughs in flowers. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Hamatreya

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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, “Afternoon on a Hill”

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. ~Basho

How doth the little busy bee

Improve each shining hour,

And gather honey all the day

From every opening flower!

~Isaac Watts, “Divine Songs”

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Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly

Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky.

~Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Silent Noon

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April is a promise that May is bound to keep. ~Hal Borland

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Popularity: 22% [?]