50 Best Quotes About Flowers

The garden is absolutely beautiful at this time of year., a myriad of colour and sweet beautiful perfume. Flowers have a magical way of touching our hearts and lifting our spirits. Their vibrant colours and delicate forms can transform any space, whether in a garden or a simple vase on the kitchen table. To celebrate the joy flowers bring to our lives, I’ve picked a few of the best quotes about flowers. These words of wisdom and beauty will hopefully lift your spirits just like the flowers themselves, or even sow some seeds to make you feel good.

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“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine for the soul.” Luther Burbank

“Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” Gerard De Nerval

“Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower.” John Harrigan

“Where flowers bloom, so does hope.” Lady Bird Johnson

“A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.” Zen Shin

“Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.” John Lennon

“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” Audrey Hepburn

“The earth laughs in flowers.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Bloom where you are planted.” Unknown

“Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth’s lips spoken without sound.” Edwin Curran

“Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A flower blossoms for its own joy.” Oscar Wilde

“Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.” Heinrich Heine

“Every flower must grow through dirt.” Laurie Jean Sennott

“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

“The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.” Robert Leighton

“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.” Buddha

“A weed is but an unloved flower.” Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“To me, flowers are happiness.” Stefano Gabbana

“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

“Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.” Shannon Mullen

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.” Pablo Neruda

“Flowers whisper ‘Beauty!’ to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall.” Dr. SunWolf

“The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.” Unknown

“Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.” Henry Ward Beecher

“If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.” Claudia Adrienne Grandi

“The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.” D.H. Lawrence

“Minds are like flowers; they open only when the time is right.” Stephen Richards

“Like wildflowers; You must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.” E.V.

“Flowers are like friends; They bring colour to your world.” Unknown

“The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.” Jean Giraudoux

“Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them.” Chinese Proverb

“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” Max Muller

“In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.” Okakura Kakuzo

“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” Victor Hugo

“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

“Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.” Sigmund Freud

“Flowers grow out of dark moments.” Corita Kent

“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.” Walt Whitman

“Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.” Jeremy Bentham

“Flowers are the Romeos and the Juliets of the nature!” Mehmet Murat ildan

“By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.” Rabindranath Tagore

“Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.” Arthur C. Coxe

“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment.” Georgia O’Keeffe

“Flowers are love’s truest language.” Park Benjamin

“All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.” Indian Proverb

“When flowers bloom, so does the earth’s spirit.” Unknown

“Open the bloom of your heart and become a gift of beauty to the world.” Bryant McGill

“Flowers are the smiles from heaven.” Unknown

“A flower does not use words to announce its arrival to the world; it just blooms.” Matshona Dhliwayo

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I hope these quotes have brought a smile to your face and a bit of floral inspiration to your day. I’d love to know your favourite flower quotes – post them in the comments below!