I leave you more than 90 Phrases about flowers Of authors like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Abraham Lincoln, Khalil Gibran, John Lennon or Sigmund Freud.
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1-Send me flowers while I’m alive. They will not do me any good after I die. -Joan Crawford.
2-I smile like a flower, not only with my lips, but with my whole being. -Rumi.
3-Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it. -Ali ibn Abi Talib.
4-We can complain because the roses have thorns, or rejoice because the thorny bushes have roses. -Abraham Lincoln.
5-Many eyes pass through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
6-Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the help of the seasons. Khalil Gibran.
7-When the flower blooms, the bees are not invited. -Ramakrishna.
8-What the sun is for the flowers, the smiles are for humanity. By the way, these are nothing but nonsense; But dispersed along the path of life, the good they do is inconceivable. -Joseph Addison.
9-The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms. -Nhat Hanh.
10-I always watch flowers. -Andy Warhol.
11-Life is the flower for which love is honey. -Victor Hugo.
12-Sow a seed and the earth will give you a flower. Dream your dream with the sky and it will bring you to your beloved. Khalil Gibran.
13-It is on the edge of a petal that love waits. -William Carlos Williams.
14-The earth laughs at the flowers. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
15-Where flowers bloom, there is hope. «Lady Bird Johnson.
16-There are always flowers for those who want to see them. -Henri Matisse.
17-Love is the answer, and for sure, you know it. Love is a flower, you have to let it grow. -John Lennon.
18-The fact that I can plant a seed and become a flower, share a little knowledge and turn it into another, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are for me continuous spiritual exercises. -Leo Buscaglia.
19-To be beautiful means to be yourself. You do not need to be accepted by others. You have to accept yourself. When you are born as a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, do not try to be a magnolia flower. If you long for acceptance and recognition and you try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer your whole life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself. -Nhat Hanh.
20-You’re only here for a brief visit. Do not worry, do not worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way. -Walter Hagen.
21-A flower can not flower without the sun, and man can not live without love. -Max Muller.
22-Love is like a beautiful flower that I can not touch, but whose fragrance also makes the garden a place of delight. -Helen Keller.
23-Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know flowers? -Maurice Maeterlinck.
24-Flowers are gentle to look at. They have no emotions or conflicts. -Sigmund Freud.
25-Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without rules, and must be torn from where it is, and enjoyed during its brief duration. -D. H. Lawrence.
26-In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. -Okakura Kakuzo.
27-Give me scents at sunrise, a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk without being disturbed. -Walt Whitman.
28-People give flowers as gifts because flowers contain the true meaning of love. Anyone who tries to own a flower will have to see how their beauty fades. But if you simply look at a flower in the field, you will keep it forever. That’s what the forest taught me: you’ll never be mine, and that’s why I’ll never lose you. -Paulo Coelho.
29-A flower blooms for your own joy. -Oscar Wilde.
30-Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphs of nature with which tells us how much you love us. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
31-Collect a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star. — Paul Dirac.
32. Money is a powerful aphrodisiac, but flowers work just as well. -Robert A. Heinlein.
33-These flowers are like the pleasures of the world. -William Shakespeare.
34. The thorny thorn often produces tender roses. -Ovid.
35-The flowers never emit a fragrance as sweet and strong as before a storm. When a storm approaches you, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower. -Jean Paul.
«The flowers really make me drunk.» -Vita Sackville West.
Her lips were four red roses on a stalk. -William Shakespeare.
38-Flowers tell us if we will listen. -Christina Rossetti.
39. The flowers that are as pathetic in their beauty, fragile as the clouds, and in their color as beautiful as the heavens, have pierced the heritage of children, honored as the jewels of God for thousands of years… -Thomas de Quincey.
40-The Japanese say, if the flower is beautiful, it must be cultivated. -Lester Cole.
You are a cosmic flower. The Om chant is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower. -Amit Ray.
42-The fragrance of a flower declares to the world that it is fertile, available and desirable, its sexual organs ooze nectar. Its scent reminds us of vestigial forms of fertility, vigor, life force, all optimism, expectation and passionate juvenile flowering. We inhale its fiery aroma and, regardless of our ages, we feel young and nubile in a world full of desire. -Diane Ackerman.
43-The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is not afraid. I’m taking more risks, I’m bold and proud. -Paula Cole.
44. True education flourishes at the moment when pleasure falls in love with responsibility. -Philip Pullman.
45-A life without dreams is a garden without flowers, but a life of impossible dreams is a garden of fake flowers… -Alessandro D’Avenia.
46-Who needs flowers when he’s already dead? No one. -J. D. Salinger.
47-You ask me why I buy rice and flowers? I buy rice to live and flowers to have something to live for. -Confucius.
48-If love could only be demonstrated with poems, flowers and rings, little love would be. -José C. Vales.
49-They say that there are flowers that only open and flower every hundred years. And why should not there be others that flourish once every thousand or even ten thousand years? Perhaps we have not known it for the simple reason that this ‘once every thousand years’ happens precisely today. -Yevgeny Zamyatin.
50-With freedom, books, flowers and the moon, who can not be happy? -Oscar Wilde.
51-There are always flowers for those who wish to see them. -Henri Matisse.
52-Never pay attention to flowers, just look at them and smell them. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Under the trembling leaves of the lilo, holding in your white hand violet flowers… Last night, in dreams, I saw you, with the exquisite bearing of a nymph from the land of fairies. -Edgar Allan Poe.
54. Flowers are so contradictory! But I was too young to know how to love her. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
«But it’s good to talk about flowers in the fall.» It gives us the hope of spring. -Paulo Coelho.
56. Thorns are useless, they are pure evil of flowers. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
57-What flowers are these on the altar, and where do they come from? -Oscar Wilde.
58. Flowers are classified among the most beautiful productions of nature; But they have been made visible by contrast with the green leaves, and therefore beautiful, at the same time, so that they can be easily observed by the insects. -Charles Darwin.
59-Living simply is not enough… one must have sun, freedom and a small flower. -Hans Christian Andersen.
60. Flowers always make people better, happier and more useful; Are the sun, food and medicine for the soul. -Luther Burbank.
61. The flowers… are a proud affirmation that a ray of beauty surpasses all the utilities of the world. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
62-I prefer roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. -Emma Goldman.
63-The Amen of nature is always a flower. -Oliver Wendell Holmes.
64-Every flower is a soul flourishing in nature. -Gerard De Nerval.
65. For me, the worst flower that flies can give thoughts that are often too deep for tears. «William Wordsworth.
«I have no preference among flowers, as long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. «Edward Abbey.
67-The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seduction of life. -Jean Giraudoux.
68. The flowers seem destined to be the comfort of ordinary humanity. -John Ruskin.
69-One of the most attractive things about flowers is their beautiful reserve. -Henry David Thoreau.
70-The flowers grow in the dark moments. -Corita Kent.
71. All the flowers, every morning, are in the seed of today. -Croft M. Pentz.
72. The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its essence or the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its charm. -Teresa of Lisieux.
For man, as for the flower, the beast, and the bird, the supreme triumph is to be the most intensely, and most perfectly alive. -D. H. Lawrence.
74-Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of tranquility on a busy day of people, such as writing a poem or saying a prayer. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
75-Weeds are also flowers, once you know them. -TO. A. Milne.
No one really sees a flower; Is so small. We do not have time, and seeing takes time, as it takes time to have a friend. -Georgia O’Keeffe.
77-I hate flowers, I paint them because they are cheaper than the models and they do not move. -Georgia O’Keeffe.
«I decided that if I could paint that flower on a huge scale, I could not ignore its beauty. -Georgia O’Keeffe.
79. The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. -Tennessee Williams.
80-Creating a small flower is the work of the ages. «William Blake.
81-A wedding is a burial where you smell your own flowers. -Eddie Cantor.
82-The flower that is unique need not envy the thorns that are numerous. -Rabindranath Tagore.
The flower that smells sweeter is timid and humble. «William Wordsworth.
«Let a hundred flowers bloom.» -Mao Zedong.
85-Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the type of care they receive. -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
86. A weed is a flower without love. «Wheeler Wilcox.
87. The flowers have on their faces an expression as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile, some have a sad expression, some are pensive and fearful, others are simple, honest and straight, like the wide-eyed and the malvarrosa. -Henry Ward Beecher.
88-Love is like the flower, friendship is like a protective tree. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
89-The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose. -George William Curtis.
90-Courtesy is the flower of mankind. -Joseph Joubert.
91-Looks like the innocent flower, but I know the snake beneath it. -William Shakespeare.
92-The silence of a flower: a kind of silence that we continually evade, of which we only find the shadow in the dreams. -Vicki Lewis Thompson.
93-Flowers are the Romeos and the Julietas of nature! -Mehmet Murat Ildan.
94. Happiness is the natural flower of duty. -Phillips Brooks.
Last updated: 08/17/15
Flowers. The world wouldn’t be as beautiful without them.
As it turns out, many great authors and poets love flowers as much as we do. Here are some of the most beautiful quotes.
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A flower blossoms for its own joy. — Oscar Wilde
“Flowers are happy things. — P.G. Wodehouse
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Flowers are love’s truest language. — Park Benjamin
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I draw flowers everyday on my iPhone and send them to my friends, so they get fresh flowers every morning. — David Hockney
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Beware of men bearing flowers. — Muriel Spark
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None can have a healthy love for flowers unless he loves the wild ones. — Forbes Watson
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Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Each flower is a soul blossoming out to nature. — Gerard de Nerval
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One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve. — Henry David Thoreau
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Flowers really do intoxicate me. — Vita Sackville-West
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I don’t know whether nice people tend to grow roses or growing roses makes people nice. — Roland A. Browne
“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. — Buddha
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There are always flowers for those who want to see them. — Henri Matisse
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. — Edward Abbey
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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts. — Sigmund Freud
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Who would have thought it possible that a tiny little flower could preoccupy a person so completely that there simply wasn’t room for any other thought. — Sophie Scholl
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To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat. — Beverly Nichols
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. — Chinese Proverb
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In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. — Kozuko Okakura
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Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and 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 )
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Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands. — Japanese Proverb
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Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light. — Theodore Roethke
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A country where flowers are priced so as to make them a luxury has yet to learn the first principles of civilization. — Chinese Proverb
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Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul. — Luther Burbank
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The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams. — Lewis Thompson
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Where flowers bloom so does hope. — Lady Bird Johnson
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With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy. — Lope de Vega
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The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. — Jean Giraudoux
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All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today. — Indian Proverb
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A rose is a rose is a rose. — Gertrude Stein
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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
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. — Iris Murdoch
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Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity. — John Ruskin
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It’s so curious: one can resist tears and ‘behave’ very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer… and everything collapses. — Colette
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To pick a flower is so much more satisfying than just observing it, or photographing it … So in later years, I have grown in my garden as many flowers as possible for children to pick. — Anne Scott-James
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Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair… — Susan Polis Shutz
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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
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The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size. — Gertrude S. Wister
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Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them. — Chinese Proverb
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I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. — Emma Goldman
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A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even one solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it. — Vita Sackville-West
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I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads and keep them in bowls of water around the house. — George Bernard Shaw
Цветы, растения, да и сама природа в целом — это неиссякаемый источник вдохновения не только для поэтов, писателей и художников, но и для обычных людей. Мы выращиваем цветы в саду, приносим букеты спутницам на свидание, дарим их в качестве знака благодарности коллегам, презентуем без повода и так далее. Это прекрасный способ выражения своих чувств и эмоций к другому человеку.
Из этой статьи вы узнаете, какие бывают цветы на английском языке с переводом, а также откроете для себя популярные идиомы на тему растений и цветов.
Не путайте слова «цветы» и «цвета». Если в русском языке они звучат похоже, то в английском это два совершенно разных по произношению слова. Colours — это цвета, которые различает наш глаз, а вот у слова цветок перевод на английский будет flower. Цветы во множественном числе — flowers.
Цветы относятся к категории plants (растения). На самом деле, те, кто не является флористом и не занимается садоводством, знают не так много названий цветов даже на своем родном языке, не говоря уже о том, чтобы помнить их перевод на английский. Много ли названий цветов на русском вы сможете вспомнить за минуту? И если не составит труда догадаться как будет по-английски цветок розы, то название, например, маргаритки, вспомнить будет уже куда сложнее.
Вы удивитесь, но многие женские имена и их производные произошли именно от названий цветов. Повсеместно распространены такие имена, как: Роза, Жасмин, Камелия, Мелисса, Лилия, Петунья, Лаванда и другие. Поэтому зная, как будут называться цветы по-английски, перевод некоторых женских имен не вызовет у вас затруднений. Кроме того, эта информация пригодится вам и в парфюмерном отделе: в описании запаха духов часто используются названия цветов. И конечно, не стоит забывать про кулинарию и специи, в составе которых также часто можно встретить элементы тех или иных сушеных растений.
Наверняка вы слышали одно короткое стихотворение на английском, которое популярно на День Святого Валентина:
Roses are red, violets are blue,
Honey is sweet, and so are you.
Розы — красные, фиалки — голубые,
Мед — сладкий, как и ты.
Из него мы можем узнать не только перевод слова «роза», но и о том, что фиалка (цветок) по-английски будет называться также, как и фиолетовый цвет (violet).
Как вы думаете, какой английский цветок является символом Великобритании? Если вы подумали о розе — то попали в яблочко. Роза украшала гербы двух враждующих династий — Ланкастеров (алая роза) и Йорков (белая роза). В память об их соперничестве и конфликтах, которые продолжались с 1455 г. по 1485 г., этот период истории был назван «Война Алой и Белой розы».
Теперь вы знаете, какой у слова «цветы» перевод на английский. Различают несколько типов flowers в зависимости от условий их выращивания:
- garden flowers — садовые цветы
- hothouse flowers — оранжерейные цветы
- wild flowers — полевые цветы
- pot flowers — комнатные цветы
Срезанные цветы называют cut flowers, обычно из них составляют bouquet of flowers (букет цветов). А вот если букетик совсем маленький, с короткими стеблями у растений, то англичане скажут, что это posy. Приобрести букеты любого типа можно в flower shop (цветочном магазине) и попросить специального человека florist (флориста) подобрать для вас лучший вариант.
Если же вы выращиваете цветы у себя в саду — то вы gardener (садовник). Чтобы составить букет из собственных цветов, нужно сначала их to plant (посадить), не забывать to fertilize / to dress (удобрять) и to water (поливать). Если все сделано правильно — ваши цветы будут to bloom (цвести). Не забудьте пригласить друзей и насладиться прекрасной порой blossom (цветения).
Если вы знаете названия цветов на русском языке, то запомнить английские цветы вам должно быть просто, ведь многие из них идентичны или созвучны. Приводим транскрипцию вместе с переводом для более правильного произношения. О том, как правильно читать транскрипцию в английском языке — читайте в отдельной статье.
- azalea [əˈzeɪ.li.ə] — азалия
- amaryllis [ˌæməˈrɪlɪs] — амариллис
- anemone [əˈnem.ə.ni] — анемон
- aster [ˈæstə] — астра
- begonia [bɪˈɡəʊ.ni.ə] — бегония
- bindweed [ˈbʌɪnd.wiːd] — вьюнок
- bluebell [ˈbluː.bel] — колокольчик
- buttercup [ˈbʌt.ə.kʌp] — лютик
- camellia [kəˈmiː.li.ə] — камелия
- carnation [kɑːˈneɪ.ʃən] — гвоздика
- chamomile [ˈkæm.ə.maɪl] — ромашка
- chrysanthemum [krɪˈsænθ.ə.məm] — хризантема
- clematis [ˈklem.ə.tɪs] — клематис
- clover [ˈkləʊ.və] — клевер
- cornflower [ˈkɔːn.flaʊə] — василек
- crocus [ˈkrəʊ.kəs] — крокус
- cyclamen [ˈsɪk.lə.mən] — цикламен
- daffodil [ˈdæf.ə.dɪl] — нарцисс
- dahlia [ˈdeɪ.li.ə] — георгин
- daisy [ˈdeɪ.zi] — маргаритка
- dandelion [ˈdæn.dɪ.laɪ.ən] — одуванчик
- delphinium [delˈfɪn.i.əm] — дельфиниум
- edelweiss [ˈeɪdlvʌɪs] — эдельвейс
- forget-me-not [fəˈɡet.mi.nɒt] — незабудка
- freesia [ˈfriː.ʒə] — фрезия
- fuchsia [ˈfjuː.ʃə] — фуксия
- gardenia [ɡɑːˈdiː.ni.ə] — гардения
- geranium [dʒəˈreɪ.ni.əm] — герань
- gerbera [ˈdʒɜːrbərə] — гербера
- gladiolus [ˌɡlæd.iˈəʊ.ləs] — гладиолус
- hibiscus [hɪˈbɪs.kəs] — гибискус
- hyacinth [ˈhaɪ.ə.sɪnθ] — гиацинт
- iris [ˈaɪ.rɪs] — ирис
- jasmine [ˈdʒæz.mɪn] — жасмин
- lavender [ˈlæv.ɪn.də] — лаванда
- lily [ˈlɪl.i] — лилия
- lily of the valley [ˌlɪl.i əv ðə ˈvæl.i] — ландыш
- lupine [ˈluː.pɪn] — люпин
- mallow [ˈmæl.əʊ] — мальва
- marigold [ˈmær.ɪ.ɡəʊld] — бархатцы
- mimosa [mɪˈməʊ.sə] — мимоза
- nasturtium [nəˈstɜː.ʃəm] — настурция
- orchid [ˈɔː.kɪd] — орхидея
- pansy [ˈpæn.zi] — анютины глазки
- peony [ˈpiː.ə.ni] — пион
- petunia [pəˈtʃuː.ni.ə] — петуния
- poppy [ˈpɒp.i] — мак
- primrose [ˈprɪm.rəʊz] — примула
- rhododendron [ˌrəʊ.dəˈden.drən] — рододендрон
- rose [rəʊz] — роза
- snapdragon [ˈsnæpˌdræɡ.ən] — львиный зев
- snowdrop [ˈsnəʊ.drɒp] — подснежник
- sunflower [ˈsʌnˌflaʊər] — подсолнух
- tulip [ˈtʃuː.lɪp] — тюльпан
- violet [ˈvaɪə.lət] — фиалка
- wisteria [wɪˈstɪə.ri.ə] — глициния
Обратили внимание, как интересно обозначаются некоторые цветы? Английский перевод незабудки — forget-me-not — произошел от французского словосочетания ne m’oubliez pas (не забывай меня). Романтики считают, что если подарить возлюбленной этот цветок, то она будет помнить вас всегда. Другие языки заимствовали эту идею и перевели название незабудки дословно.
Части цветка:
- bud — бутон
- calyx — чашечка цветка
- flower — цветок
- petal — лепесток
- stalk — черенок
- stamen — тычинка
- stem — стебель
Идиомы и полезные фразы на тему цветов и растений
Как и многие другие распространенные объекты, цветы в английском языке стали основной для некоторых устойчивых выражений.
- As welcome as flowers in May — долгожданное событие
Логичное и понятное выражение о каких-то новостях или вещах, которые ждут с нетерпением.
- Flowery — витиеватый (о языке)
Употребляется в случае, когда чья-либо речь или письмо перенасыщены ненужными выражениями и заумными словами.
- Fresh as a daisy — свежий, как огурчик (дословно: свежий, как маргаритка)
Еще одна идиома о цветущем и бодром виде.
- Gild the lily — делать что-то попусту, заниматься ненужным делом (дословно: золотить лилию).
Так говорят о бесполезных делах, когда пытаются улучшить что-то, что и без того хорошо работает.
- Have roses in one’s cheeks — кровь с молоком (дословно: иметь розы на щеках)
Так говорят о здоровом, розовощеком человеке.
- In the flower of life — в расцвете сил
Фраза о возрасте или хорошем состоянии человека.
- Path strewn with roses — легкая жизнь (дословно: путь, усыпанный розами)
Это выражение применяется, когда говорят о человеке, которому все дается легко, либо в противоположном значении (например: «не думайте, что жизнь будет легкой»).
- Shrinking violet — застенчивый человек (дословно: сухая фиалка)
Это словосочетание применяют к неуверенному в себе человеку, намеренно избегающему других.
- Wallflower — человек, который не танцует, стесняется (дословно: цветок у стены)
Так часто говорят о девушках, которые приходят в клуб или на вечеринку, но весь вечер не решаются выйти на танцпол и стоят у стены.
- Under the rose — по секрету, тайно (дословно: под розой)
Выражение пришло из времен Древнего Рима, в котором роза была символом молчания.
Надеемся, что вы не только узнали, как будет «цветок» по-английски, но и нашли для себя в этой статье много другой полезной информации!
Plants and Flowers Idioms: There are many idioms by the theme that we use on a daily basis. Knowing about idioms about trees and idioms about flowers will add a flowery essence to your lexicon.
And these days, gardening has become a favorite leisure activity of many, and hence learning some garden idioms will give you ease and edge to your hobby. Here we have hand-picked some favorite idioms about plants and flowers, which will help you communicate and enhance your vocabulary.
Enrich your Vocabulary by practicing the English Idioms that are commonly used in everyday conversations and understanding their actual meaning.
- Meaning and Examples of some commonly used Plants and Flowers Idioms
List of Plants and Flowers Idioms
- (As) fresh as a daisy
- (Not) let the grass grow under feet
- (The) Wrong End of the Stick
- A rolling stone gathers no moss.
- A tumbleweed moment
- Barking up the wrong tree
- Beat About the Bush (UK); Beat Around the Bush (USA)
- Bed of Roses
- Bouquet of orchids
- Broken reed
- Can’t See the Forest for the Trees
- Clutch at straws
- Come up roses
- Come up smelling of roses.
- Cut down the tall poppies.
- Demon weed
- Don’t Amount to a Hill of Beans.
- Draw the shortest straw
- Easy as falling off a log
- Flowery speech
- Garden variety
- Gild the lily
- Go Out on a Limb
- Go to seed
- Grasp at straws
- Grasp the nettle
- Grassroots
- Green fingers
- Hit the hay
- In Clover
- In the tall cotton
- It’s a jungle out there.
- Just as the twig is bent, the tree is inclined the same way.
- Kick something into the long grass
- Knock on Wood; Touch Wood
- Last straw
- Late bloomer
- Lead up the garden path
- Leave the field open.
- Like a bump on a log
- Little strokes fell great oaks.
- Lose your gourd
- Make hay while the sun shines.
- Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.
- Mother Nature
- Muck or nettles
- Needle in a haystack
- Never a rose without the prick.
- Nip it in the bud
- No bed of roses
- No Tree Grows to the Sky
- Old chestnut
- Olive branch
- Oops a daisy
- Out of One’s Gourd
- Out of the woods
- Primrose path
- Pushing Up Daisies
- Put Down Roots
- Put someone out to pasture.
- Root and branch
- Rough end of the stick
- Shake like a leaf
- Shrinking violet
- Small dog, tall weeds
- Sow seeds of suspicion
- Sow wild oats
- Stick-in-the-Mud
- The cream of the crop
- Thorn in your side
- Through the Grapevine
- Too Many To Shake A Stick At
- Turn over a new leaf.
- Up a gum tree
Meaning and Examples of some commonly used Plants and Flowers Idioms
(As) fresh as a daisy
Meaning: High-energy person with a lot of enthusiasm.
Example: He was as fresh as a daisy when he returned home after a long day at work.
(Not) let the grass grow under feet
Meaning: To avoid being lazy or being stationary.
Example: Get to business and don’t let the grass grow under your feet.
(The) Wrong End of the Stick
Meaning: Making a mistake with the information.
Example: We were seriously arguing over it when I realized he had the wrong end of the stick.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Meaning: A person who does not maintain a permanent resident status will not acquire money, reputation, responsibilities, or obligations.
Example: Feel free to stick to one sphere of specialization because a rolling stone gathers no moss, and you will be unlikely to accomplish anything in conclusion.
A tumbleweed moment
Meaning: Silence that was cold and completely unresponsive for a considerable time.
Example: Just after the teacher posed the question in the classroom, there was a tumbleweed moment.
Barking up the wrong tree
Meaning: To make a poor judgment.
Example: We seem to have been barking up the wrong tree; his justification works perfectly fine.
Beat About the Bush (UK); Beat Around the Bush (USA)
Meaning: To discuss a variety of irrelevant topics.
Example: Please don’t beat around the bush and get straight to the basic issue because it’s getting late to make a difference.
Bed of Roses
Meaning: A pleasant or opulent environment.
Example: If you assumed that becoming the club’s President would be a bed of roses, I’m sure you’ve learned that you were completely and utterly mistaken.
Bouquet of orchids
Meaning: Someone who deserves an orchid bouquet has done something noteworthy of appreciation.
Example: We thought he wouldn’t be able to finish his exam this time, but not only did he pass, but he finished with flying colors, worthy of a bouquet of orchids.
Broken reed
Meaning: When someone or something is counted on for assistance or support, it fails miserably.
Example: Saima sought her partner for additional assistance, but he proved to be a broken reed.
Can’t See the Forest for the Trees
Meaning: A person who is unable to recognize a situation for what it is and instead becomes engrossed with the intricacies, losing focus of the larger scheme.
Example: He was overburdened upon becoming the company’s CEO, and he began to lose sight of the forest for the trees, unable to comprehend the basis for the company’s poor growth trajectory.
Clutch at straws
Meaning: Attempt something that would be extremely improbable to succeed because you are frantic or have exhausted all other alternatives.
Example: Because he had already ruined his professional career, this was just a clutch at straws.
Come up roses
Meaning: Develop in a really positive fashion.
Example: I’m delighted that the marriage ceremony came up roses.
Come up smelling of roses.
Meaning: Try to maintain a positive image despite being engaged in controversy or other undesirable scenarios.
Example: He assumed that exposing the fraud would make him come up smelling of roses, but he was ignorant that his name was also on the blacklist.
Cut down the tall poppies.
Meaning: To make fun of individuals who stick out in a gathering.
Example: He has a bad tendency to cut down the tall poppies.
Demon weed
Meaning: Drugs.
Example: He’s slowly being devoured by the demon weed’s detrimental reactions.
Don’t Amount to a Hill of Beans.
Meaning: It’s a minuscule quantity.
Example: That quantity of funds doesn’t amount to a hill of beans.
Draw the shortest straw
Meaning: To be chosen for an unattractive assignment.
Example: Poor workers are always the individuals who are drawn the shortest straw.
Easy as falling off a log
Meaning: To be exceptionally basic, straightforward, or simple.
Example: You may believe that getting the job completed is as easy as falling off a log, but you would be horribly mistaken.
Flowery speech
Meaning: A plethora of verbiage.
Example: He imagined that his flowery speech would have been enough to persuade the crowd of students.
Garden variety
Meaning: Prevalent or commonplace.
Example: This isn’t your garden variety cuisine; it’s authentic Italian cuisine.
Gild the lily
Meaning: Make an effort to better what is already attractive or truly wonderful.
Example: His endeavor to gild the lily backfired, and the painting was damaged.
Go Out on a Limb
Meaning: To perform or assert something that is unsubstantiated by data.
Example: He was merely going out on a limb when he was brought to the courtroom and questioned for his testimony.
Go to seed
Meaning: Deteriorate, largely as a consequence of negligence.
Example: His business is going to seed one day at a time.
Grasp at straws
Meaning: Making a futile attempt to safeguard oneself.
Example: The decision to withdraw the fixed deposits was a method for her to grab at straws.
Grasp the nettle
Meaning: Take up a challenge head-on.
Example: It was only because of Mina’s sharp wit that we were fortunate to grab the nettle.
Grassroots
Meaning: Most basic fundamental stage.
Example: From the grassroots level, one should strive to become an expert in their domain.
Green fingers
Meaning: Natural talent of Plant-growing capacity.
Example: I’m not sure why he wants to discontinue gardening; he has green fingers.
Hit the hay
Meaning: Go to sleep.
Example: She hit the hay as soon as she got home after a grueling and stressful day.
In Clover
Meaning: In comfort and elegance.
Example: When you have your parents’ backing, life is forever in clover.
In the tall cotton
Meaning: During a moment of exceptional success or enjoyment.
Example: After she earned the job, they were all in the tall cotton.
It’s a jungle out there.
Meaning: The situation is perilous and menacing.
Example: Before I left for my job overseas, my father kept on telling me that it was a jungle out there.
Just as the twig is bent, the tree is inclined the same way.
Meaning: Early exposures have a long-lasting impact.
Example: Her parents should have rectified her behavior at a young age because the tree is inclined in the same way as the twig is bent. She has now become rude and obnoxious, and disrespectful to her elders.
Kick something into the long grass
Meaning: Terminate or put an end to a difficulty.
Example: I’ve decided that enough is enough and that I’m going to kick this nonsense into the long grass.
Knock on Wood; Touch Wood
Meaning: When we are bragging about something or believe we have tempted destiny, we often use the expression spontaneously.
Example: Touch Wood! Let’s hope what we just said comes to fruition.
Last straw
Meaning: The newest in a long line of challenges that make a predicament unacceptably hard to cope with.
Example: The bank’s refusal to approve their loan was the last straw.
Late bloomer
Meaning: A person whose skills or talents are not glaringly obvious to others until afterward than typical.
Example: Despite the fact that Sam was a late bloomer when it came to percussion, his band is now one of the most famous in the city.
Lead up the garden path
Meaning: Give someone deceptive signs or cues.
Example: We were blissfully unaware that she was bringing us up the garden path.
Leave the field open.
Meaning: Stop contending with someone and allow them to flourish instead.
Example: Vishali made the wrong decision by leaving the field open for Ram.
Like a bump on a log
Meaning: Expressionless, sluggish, and deafeningly still.
Example: He must be emotionally upset because he never sits like a bump on a log at any event.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Meaning: Even if things appear overwhelming, breaking it down into manageable chunks and completing one step at a time will set you up for success.
Example: Radhika was bewildered by her massive debt, but we reassured her that great oaks were felled by little strokes.
Lose your gourd
Meaning: They’ve lost their minds or have gone completely insane.
Example: When Rahul believed that investing all of his resources in the stock market would make him wealthy overnight, he must have lost his gourd.
Make hay while the sun shines.
Meaning: Take advantage of a good opportunity while it lasts.
Example: Rather than waiting for more clients, I would recommend selling the house now while there are still some bids available because it is always the best to make hay while the sun shines.
Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.
Meaning: Something tiny or basic in size might grow to be quite large and stunningly beautiful.
Example: Don’t discourage her from exploring her artistic side; you never know, mighty oaks can grow from little acorns.
Mother Nature
Meaning: Nature is depicted as a creative and guiding element that has an imprint on the planet and on humanity today.
Example: She was raised in the countryside, encircled by mother nature.
Muck or nettles
Meaning: It’s either all or zero.
Example: Anything he does, muck or nettles, he is always appreciated by the boss at work.
Needle in a haystack
Meaning: Something that is difficult or exceptionally complicated to locate, primarily if the search zone is too extensive.
Example: It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack while searching for an error in this enormous compiled program code.
Never a rose without the prick.
Meaning: There are always downsides to a positive thing.
Example: You can’t expect everything to go smoothly when you move out; you never get a rose without the prick.
Nip it in the bud
Meaning: Stop something in its tracks or double-check something.
Example: They nipped the organization in the bud by postponing the online auction.
No bed of roses
Meaning: It is not all joyful, and there are a few potential downsides as well.
Example: You can’t just believe that getting into an IVY League university is a bed of roses.
No Tree Grows to the Sky
Meaning: Growth cannot go unrestrained permanently.
Example: Stop betting everything on the stock market solely on today’s success; no tree grows to the sky.
Old chestnut
Meaning: A tired cliche, narrative, or saying.
Example: I’m sick of your old chestnut; if you have something interesting to say, feel free to say so or leave.
Olive branch
Meaning: An offer to try to reconcile.
Example: Despite our offering of an olive branch, they refused to acknowledge it.
Oops a daisy
Meaning: Said when a little child falls down.
Example: Oops, a daisy, oh my! Jack, don’t cry.
Out of One’s Gourd
Meaning: Either extremely intoxicated or utterly insane.
Example: I’m not sure why he is always out of his gourd in front of his family and creates a ruckus every time they meet up.
Out of the woods
Meaning: Out of harm’s way or a challenging situation.
Example: I can’t express how incredibly grateful I am to my friends for supporting me emotionally and financially and bringing me out of the woods.
Primrose path
Meaning: The pursuit of joy, particularly when it threatens to have adverse effects.
Example: How ignorant to their surroundings can somebody be before walking the primrose path?
Pushing Up Daisies
Meaning: To have died.
Example: It was too early for her to be pushing up daisies at her age.
Put Down Roots
Meaning: Establish yourself in a new destination.
Example: In Kolkata, we’re looking for a location to put down roots.
Put someone out to pasture.
Meaning: Forced into retirement.
Example: His colleagues pretty much put him to pasture.
Root and branch
Meaning: Meant to describe how comprehensive or revolutionary a technique or procedure is.
Example: We were looking forward to next week’s existing plans’ root and branch modification.
Rough end of the stick
Meaning: In a deal, scenario, or relationship, to be unfairly targeted or to come across as being weaker than the opposing person.
Example: They were dissatisfied that they were receiving the rough end of the stick, and they believed that they deserved so much better.
Shake like a leaf
Meaning: Quivering out of fear.
Example: When the exam results were released, the students were trembling like leaves.
Shrinking violet
Meaning: A person who is unrealistic shy, and nervous.
Example: She was a completely different character when she went on the podium to speak, ignoring the fact that we assumed she was a shrinking violet.
Small dog, tall weeds
Meaning: Someone who completely lacks the skills or resources to accomplish a project or job.
Example: Despite his boasting about how qualified he is for the task, he is a small dog, tall weeds.
Sow seeds of suspicion
Meaning: To act in a way that guarantees a particular conclusion in the future, particularly one that is unfortunate or catastrophic.
Example: We are fairly convinced that he was the one who sowed the seeds of suspicion in our organization.
Sow wild oats
Meaning: To act in a defiant or irresponsible manner.
Example: I wasn’t shocked when he went very much against the program; this is the age to sow wild oats.
Stick-in-the-Mud
Meaning: A person who is boring, uninterested in trying something different, and who is reluctant to change.
Example: Why are you behaving like such a stick-in-the-mind? It’s past time for us to go online with our business.
The cream of the crop
Meaning: The pinnacle of a broader range of people.
Example: The movie was well-received by the cream of the crop audience, but it was not quite loved by the wider populace.
Thorn in your side
Meaning: They irritate you or cause you difficulties on a constant schedule.
Example: Raima is proving to be a thorn in our side whenever we want to acquire property.
Through the Grapevine
Meaning: Hear something through the back door.
Example: They were filing for divorce, I learned through the grapevine.
Too Many To Shake A Stick At
Meaning: Quite a few.
Example: I had no inkling that delaying in buying the land would leave me with too many opponents to shake a stick at.
Turn over a new leaf.
Meaning: Begin to act or live in a somewhat more serious or better style.
Example: I am delighted that he has turned a new leaf after such a long time period.
Up a gum tree
Meaning: In a really terrible predicament from which there is no alternative out.
Example: With his gambling tendencies, he climbed a gum tree.
Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old flowers quotes, flowers sayings, and flowers proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.
Christian Dior
Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward Beecher
I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
Emma Goldman
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Jean Giraudoux
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
Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul.
Luther Burbank
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
Gerard de Nerval
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
Sigmund Freud
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
Antonio Porchia
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
William Wordsworth
The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams.
Lewis Thompson
The flowers take the tears of weeping night, and give them to the sun for the day’s delight.
Joseph Cotter
Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them.
Chinese Proverb
The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.
Sir Francis Bacon
All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.
Indian Proverb
Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.
Lady Bird Johnson
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
D. H. Lawrence
A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman
To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
Beverly Nichols
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 their character.
Lydia M. Child
Flowers bring to a liberal and gentlemanly mind, the remembrance of honesty, comeliness, and all kinds of virtue.
John Gerard
Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy.
Robert G. Ingersoll
The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.
Gertrude S. Wister
If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for a moment.
Georgia O’Keeffe
Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.
John Ruskin
Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them.
H.N. Hudson
Flowers may beckon towards us, but they speak toward heaven and God.
Henry Ward Beecher
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 words which even a babe may understand.
Arthur Cleveland Coxe
Where flowers bloom so does hope.
Lady Bird Johnson
Flowers are love’s truest language.
Park Benjamin
In joy or sadness flowers are our constant friends.
Okakura Kakuzō
A flower blossoms for its own joy.
Oscar Wilde
Flowers are the music of the earth.
Marty Rubin
Flowers are not made by singing Oh, how beautiful, and sitting in the shade.
Rudyard Kipling
Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.
Theodore Roethke
One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
Henry David Thoreau
The flowers take the tears of weeping night and give them to the sun for day’s delight.
Joseph S. Cotter, Sr.
Every flower must grow through dirt.
Laurie Jean Sennott
Wildflowers don’t care where they grow.
Dolly Parton
Flowers feed the soul.
Hadith Mohammed
Look at the flowers-for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.
Osho
Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die.
Anthony De Mello
Flowers grow out of dark moments.
Corita Kent
Flowers are happy things.
P G Wodehouse
The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; But beauty faded has no second spring.
Ambrose Philips
No flower wants to be at home when it is raining outside!
Mehmet Murat Idan
If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.
Andrew Mason
To me, flowers are happiness.
Stefano Gabbana
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
A.A. Milne
It’s the time that you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important…People have forgotten this truth, but you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her… I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes.
Arundhati Roy
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flower.
Basho
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.
Buddha
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.
Chanakya
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
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie
Flowers are those little colorful beacons of the sun from which we get sunshine when dark, somber skies blanket our thoughts.
Dodinsky
Like wildflowers; You must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.
E.V.
I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
Edward Abbey
Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth’s lips spoken without sound.
Edwin Curran
I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!
Elizabeth Gaskell
Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.
G.K. Chesterton
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
Georges Bernanos
A flower is relatively small. Everyone has many associations with a flower – the idea of flowers. You put out your hand to touch the flower – lean forward to smell it – maybe touch it with your lips almost without thinking – or give it to someone to please them. Still – in a way – Nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small it takes time – we haven’t time – and to see takes time, like to having a friend takes time.
Georgia O’Keeffe
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
Heinrich Heine
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Helen Keller
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
I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.
Herbert Rappaport
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
Honoré de Balzac
Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
Ikkyu Sojun
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch
Who wants flowers when you’re dead? Nobody.
J. D. Salinger
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
Jeremy Bentham
Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.
John Harrigan
Love is the flower you’ve got to let it grow.
John Lennon
One by one she slew her fears, and then planted a flower garden over their graves.
John Mark Green
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph Addison
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.
Kahlil Gibran
Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.
Mamata Banerjee
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
Max Muller
In the garden the door is always open into the «holy» — growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death.
May Sarton
Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.
May Sarton
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
Pablo Neruda
A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks: ‘Aren’t you tired of waiting?’ ‘Yes,’ answers the rose, ‘but if I close my petals, I will wither and die.
Paulo Coelho
Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.
Rahman Baba
Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A rose’s rarest essence lives in the thorn.
Rumi
Minds are like flowers; they open only when the time is right.
Stephen Richards
Don’t let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden.
Steve Maraboli
Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
Stevie Wonder
Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair.
Susan Polis Schutz
By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
Vernon Howard
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
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo
You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
Walter Hagen
A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.
Zen Shin