botanical growth Quotes

The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.

There were so many miracles at work: that a blossom might become a peach, that a bee could make honey in its thorax, that rain might someday fall. I thought then about the seasons changing, and in the gray of night I could almost will myself to see the azure sky, the gold of the maple leaves, the crimson of the ripe apples, the hoarfrost on the grass.

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.

The nature of this flower is to bloom.

You can't have the fruits without the roots.

The career of flowers differs from ours only inaudibleness.

The tree which fills the arms grew from the tiniest sprout.

Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye 're sleeping.

While rose-buds scarcely show'd their hue, But coyly linger'd on the thorn.

The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.

Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.

And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets.

If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?

The blooming of a flower is, in my mind, not a miracle. It's something that we can understand on the basis of molecular biology these days.