THE MOST MAGNIFICENT IMAGES & IDEAS ABOUT THE BEAUTY OF FLOWERS
“I must have flowers, always, and always.”
--- Claude Monet
“Flowers are the Romeos and the Juliets of the nature!”
--- Mehmet Murat İldan
“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
“Earth laughs in flowers.”
--- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Flowers are happy things.”
--- P. G. Wodehouse
“In joy or sadness flowers are our constant friends.”
--- Okakura Kakuzō, “The Book Of Tea”
“How can one help shivering with delight when one's hot fingers close around the stem of a live flower, cool from the shade and stiff with newborn vigor!”
--- Colette
"The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life."
--- Jean Giraudoux
“Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world.”
--- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”
--- Oscar Wilde
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IMAGE CREDITS:
- Image: by ukgardenphotos. “ Rustic Rose Arches Filled With Tumbling Flowers.” Mottisfont Abbey Rose Gardens. Hampshire, UK.
- Image: by Kimberly Simmons. “Rosie Bitties. First Little Rose Blooms of the Season.”
- Image: by John Blower. “Rose.”
- Image: by ukgardenphotos. “Amazing Abundance of Flowers in Traditional English Flower Border.” Mottisfont Abbey Rose Gardens. Hampshire, UK.
- Image: by JR P. “Hellebores (Lenten Roses) from Our North Georgia Garden.”
- Image: by Tommy Clark. “The Last Rose.”
- Image: by Patty O'Hearn Kickham. “When Orchids Cry.”
- Image: by GollyGforce - Living My Worst Nightmare. “Unfurling Beauty.”
- Image: by Catherine Mullhaupt. “Orchid Parts.”
- Image: by psyberartist. “Up Close.”
- Image: by Ian. “Pheasant and the Last of the Summer Roses.”
- Image: by Rachel Kramer. “Butterflies are Back.”
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- Image: by Tien K Khoo. “A Most Magnificent Bloom. Lupin Season!”