Memories of Munnar ...

Flowers from the "Gods Own Country "

“ “A weed is but an unloved flower.” 
― Ella Wheeler Wilcox  

“If our destiny stems from our name, then I weep for the flower named Wilt.” 
― Jarod Kintz,

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
Emma Goldman

Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted.

ELBERT HUBBARD, The American Bible

Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.

HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

“God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.” 
― Victor Hugo

“In joy or sadness flowers are our constant friends.” 
― Kakuzō Okakura, The Book Of Tea

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
Ben Hogan

“Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.” 
― May Sarton

“A few blossoms float into the room. They drop like frayed yellow ribbons on the gray carpet.” 
― Eileen Granfors

“You’re frustrated because you keep waiting for the blooming of flowers of which you have yet to sow the seeds.” 
― Steve Maraboli

“In the village, a sage should go about
Like a bee, which, not harming
Flower, colour or scent,
Flies off with the nectar.” 
― Anonymous, The Dhammapada

“I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.” 
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

In every flower see a miracle, with every year seek more flowers. 

“By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.” 
― Vernon Howard

“Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don’t pluck them!” 
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.” 
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“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

“Flowers are the Romeos and the Juliets of the nature!” 
― Mehmet Murat ildan

I love to smell flowers in the dark ... You get hold of their soul then.

LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY, Anne's House of Dreams

Flowers are words which even a babe may understand.

ARTHUR CLEVELAND COXE, The Singing of Birds

What this old world needs is more bouquets handed around to folks when they are alive and kicking. Flowers don't do a dead one much good.

ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, Poems and Paragraphs

Flowers are the music of the ground

From earth's lips spoken without sound.

EDWIN CURRAN, "Flowers"