Quotes by Flower The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of jasmine. "In return for the odor of my jasmine, I'd like all the odor of your roses." "I have no roses; all the flowers in my garden are dead." "Well then, I'll take the withered petals and the yellow leaves and the waters of the fountain." the wind left. And I wept. And I said to myself: "What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you? Antonio Machado garden flower wind The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are. Antonio Porchia flower time hands Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow. Antonio Porchia sunshine nature flower The surest way to wake up and smell the roses every day is to go to sleep face down in the flower bed. Argus Hamilton smell flower sleep I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers. Ariel Sharon born political flower My strength never came from political echelons, it came from the family. And from the fields and the lands and the flowers and everything I see there. My strength came from there. Ariel Sharon political land flower Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden. Aristotle flower humility humble Recreation in the open is of the finest grade. The moral benefits are all positive. The individual with any soul cannot live long in the presence of towering mountains or sweeping plains without getting a little of the high moral standard of Nature infused into his being ... with eyes opened, the great story of the Earth's forming, the history of a tree, the life of a flower or the activities of some small animal will all unfold themselves to the recreationist. Arthur Carhart flower eye animal Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. Arthur Cleveland Coxe nature flower baby There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. Arthur Conan Doyle smell flower rose It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. Arthur Conan Doyle goodness flower giving We have much to hope from the flowers. Arthur Conan Doyle embellishment plant flower You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star. Arthur Eddington petals stars flower Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all. Arthur Golden grows one-day flower It's lovely having grass and trees and flowers(Of course, at times, mosquitoes are a pest).Yes, life is life out here in Rangely Towers(Of course Some People like the city best)! Arthur Guiterman flower cities people Zen is to religion what a Japanese "rock garden" is to a garden. Zen knows no god, no afterlife, no good and no evil, as the rock-garden knows no flowers, herbs or shrubs. It has no doctrine or holy writ: its teaching is transmitted mainly in the form of parables as ambiguous as the pebbles in the rock-garden which symbolise now a mountain, now a fleeting tiger. When a disciple asks "What is Zen?", the master's traditional answer is "Three pounds of flax" or "A decaying noodle" or "A toilet stick" or a whack on the pupil's head. Arthur Koestler garden flower teaching Optimism will grow like a flower if the soil be properly prepared. Arthur Lynch soil optimism flower I fished a little while ago with a man, not in his first youth, who had wasted the flower of his life on business and golf and gardening and motoring and marriage, and had in this way postponed his initiation (to fly fishing) far too long. Arthur Ransome flower golf men Without charm there can be no fine literature, as there can be no perfect flower without fragrance. Arthur Symons flower literature perfect I have loved colours, and not flowers;Their motion, not the swallows wings;And wasted more than half my hoursWithout the comradeship of things. Arthur Symons flower half wings «89101112131415161718»