And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
There's still something so pure and heartfelt and emotional and genuine about a bouquet of flowers that, even with all the advances of technology and the millions of ways we have to communicate with each other, flowers are still relevant in my opinion.
At my age flowers scare me.
Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate.
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.
It is so important to allow children to bloom and to be driven by their curiosity.
One day, I was at my grandmother's house, and I found diaries that she kept as a young girl. I opened one to a page that had flowers glued inside. In her childish handwriting, my grandmother wrote, 'Pap died today. I am very sad.' The fact that this was true and that I could see the withered flowers made a huge impression on me.
I don't think there is anything magical about the language of flowers in real life or in my book.