A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

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

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

Flowers are happy things.

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

The orchid's association in Chinese culture with such virtues as elegance, good taste, friendship, and fertility goes all the way back to Confucius himself, who was said to have a particular attachment to the flowers.

One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.

I was in high school - and I went to an all-boys Catholic high school, a Jesuit high school, where I was focused on academics and athletics, going to church every Sunday at Little Flower, working on my service projects, and friendship, friendship with my fellow classmates and friendship with girls from the local all-girls Catholic schools.

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

To embrace the whole world in friendship is wisdom. This wisdom is not changeable like the flowers that bloom and fade.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

When I heard that the bees were in trouble, the fact that they're disappearing and not coming back to the hive, which is a big issue, since a third of the food we eat comes from plants, I figured you couldn't tell the story of the bees without the story of the flowers and how they basically have evolved together for over 150 years.

I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.