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In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life.

— Jonas Mekas

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.

— Beverley Nichols

Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that the only flowers to be admitted to the walled garden of good taste are discreet and pastel-hued.

— Craig Brown

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

— Gerard De Nerval

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.

— Chanakya

Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate.

— Lynn Coady

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

It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.

— Lena Horne

A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

— Luis Barragan

✗Opposing Perspectives

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

— Walt Whitman

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

— Georges Bernanos