Botanical Symbolism Quotes

Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe.

Plants were bound for good or ill to their places. They expressed not only beauty but also the thoughts of God's world, with an intent of their own and without deviation. Trees in particular were mysterious and seemed to me direct embodiments of the incomprehensible meaning of life. For that reason, the woods were the places where I felt closest to its deepest meaning and to its awe-inspiring workings.

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.

Most gladly would I give the blood-stained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year.

I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.

Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy

Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.

The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.

Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn.

Almond blossom, sent to teach us That the spring days soon will reach us.

Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.

That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, . . . I like such ivy; bold to leap a height 'Twas strong to climb! as good to grow on graves As twist about a thyrsus; pretty too (And that's not ill) when twisted round a comb.

Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light.

The cowslip is a country wench.

Here eglantine embalm'd the air, Hawthorne and hazel mingled there; The primrose pale, and violet flower, Found in each cliff a narrow bower; Fox-glove and nightshade, side by side, Emblems of punishment and pride, Group'd their dark hues with every stain The weather-beaten crags retain.

But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.

The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers.

An angel visited the green earth, and took a flower away.

The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of 'Le Language des Fleurs,' written by Charlotte de Latour and printed in Paris in 1819. To create the book - which was a list of flowers and their meanings - de Latour gathered references to flower symbolism throughout poetry, ancient mythology, and even medicine.

O fateful flower beside the rill- The Daffodil, the daffodil!