Books and flowers are two of our favorite things, and it is not surprising that so many writers have put into words some profound insights into those beautiful blooms.
“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in–what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.”―Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
The earth laughs in flowers.”―Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.”―Okakura Kakuzo, The Book of Tea
Maggie said that love was the flower of life, and blossomed unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it was found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow
It is said that every life has its roses and thorns; there seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake in Stephen’s case, whereby somebody else had become possessed of his roses, and he had become possessed of the same somebody else’s thorns in addition to his own. ~ Charles Dickens, Hard Times
“Flowers are the music of the ground from earth’s lips spoken without sound.” ― Edwin Curran