"Awakening"
"Twin Flames"
"Blue Hydrangeas"
"Show-off Hibiscus"
"Delicious Dahlias"
Dancing Ladies
"Hydrangeas from the Garden"
"Gooseberries"
"Pansies, Pink & Purple"
"Rhododendron Romance"
"Jacquelyn's Favorites"
"Delicate Being"
"Summer Zinnias"
"Pamela's Secrets"
"Seeing beauty in a flower could awaken humans, however briefly, to the beauty that is an essential part of their innermost being, their true nature. The first recognition of beauty was one of the most significant events in the evolution of human consciousness. The feelings of joy and love are intrinsically connected to that recognition. Without our fully realizing it, flowers would become an expression in form of that which is most high, most sacred, and ultimately formless within ourselves. Flowers, more fleeting, more ethereal, and more delicate than the plants out of which they emerged, would become like messengers from another realm, like a bridge between the world of physical forms and the formless. In the case of a flower...even someone with little or no Presence can occasionally sense that there is more there than the mere physical existance of that form, without knowing that this is the reason why he or she is drawn to it, feels an affinity with it."

~ Eckhart Tolle ~ A New Earth
"Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning."

~ Lydia M. Child ~
"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change."

~ Buddha ~
"In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts & dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful."

~ Abram L. Urban ~
"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not."

~ Georgia O'Keeffe ~
"To see a world in a grain of sand
And heaven in a flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour."

~ William Blake ~
"The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers."

~ Thich Nhat Hahn ~
"Each flower is a soul blossoming out to nature."

~ Gerad de Nerval ~
"Art is man's nature; nature is God's art."

~ Philip James Bailey ~
"The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life."

~ Jean Giraudoux ~
"It is at the edge of a petal that love waits."

~ William Carlos Williams ~
"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."

~ Claude Monet ~
"Perfumes are the feelings of flowers."

~ Heinrich Heine ~
"Antique Treasures"
"If you have never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom."

~ Audra Foveo ~
"I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about."

~ George Eliot ~
"Prayer of Gratitude"
Knowing
"Subtle Energy"
"Clarity From Within"
"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 ~
"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy to have such things about us."

~ Iris Murdoch ~
"Dancing Towards The Light"
"Tiny Worlds"
"Petalights"
"Contemplation"
"Moonlight Meditation"
"Nature's Jewelry"
"Nature's Kiss"
"Peridot Lights"
"Liquid Love Sonnets"
"The Gift"
"Dancing Ladies"
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul."

~The Koran~

"A flower's appeal is in its contradictions - so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect. "

~Adabella Radici~

"Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?"

~Maurice Maeterlinck~

"A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring."

~The Collected Later Poems of William Carlos Williams~

"Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals.  Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.".

~Henry Ward Beecher~

"Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed."  ~Walt Whitman~

"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
"I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck." 

~Emma Goldman~

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

  ~Basho~

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"A World In One Drop"
"Fibonacci Spiral"
"Sea Glass"
"The Unfolding Feminine"
"Robin's Zinnias"
"Knowing"
"Forgiveness"
"Tulip Bells"
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"What if you slept?  And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower?  And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand?  Ah... what then?"

~Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
"I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty."

~ Georgia O'Keeffe
"Balancing Act"
"A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love."

~ Max Muller
"I've always thought my flowers had souls."

~ Myrtle Reed

"The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power."

~ Charles Dickens
"Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun."

- Kahlil Gibran
"When a mind has only light,
it knows only light.
Its own radiance shines all around it,
and extends out into the darkness
of other minds,
transforming them into majesty."

~ A Course In Miracles
"Ask for light
and learn that you are light."

~ A Course In Miracles
"An eye is meant to see things. The soul is here for its own joy."

~ Rumi
"We are the mirror as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste of infinity this minute."

~ Rumi
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."   ~ Carl Jung
"You have to leave the city of your comfort
and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
What you'll discover will be wonderful.
What you'll discover is yourself."

~ Alan Alda
"Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson