WHERE FLOWERS BLOOM SO DOES HOPE

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

Each flower is a soul opening out to nature ~ Gerald De Nerval

Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers ~ Claude Monet

The temple bell stops but I still hear
the sound coming out of the flowers ~ Basho

Where flowers bloom so does hope ~ Lady Bird Johnson

'Tis my faith that every flower enjoys
the air it breathes! ~ William Wordsworth

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity ~ John Ruskin

Wildflowers don't care where they grow ~ Dolly Parton

... Bring me the sunflower crazed with the love of light ~ Eugenio Montale

Photo by Barb Tingler

2004