Like the musician, the painter, the poet, and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. And he is born to happiness in this vale of tears, to a certain amount of the purest joy that earth can giver her children, joy that is tranquil, innocent, uplifting, unfailing.
More Quotes from Celia Thaxter:
As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with them, and adoring them as if they were human beings. Much laughter I provoke among my friends by so doing, but that is of no consequence. We are on such good terms, my flowers and I.Celia Thaxter
When in the fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness.
Celia Thaxter
Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof. Take that Poppy seed, for instance it lies in your palm, the merest atom of matter, hardly visible, a speck, a pin's point in bulk, but within it is imprisoned a spirit of beauty ineffable, which will break its bonds and emerge from the dark ground and blossom in a splendor so dazzling as to baffle all powers of description.
Celia Thaxter
It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a mass of sooty, shapeless slime, and he devours everything.
Celia Thaxter
I am fully and intensely aware that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else.
Celia Thaxter
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Children Quotes, Drawing & Painting Quotes, Flowers Quotes, Joy & Excitement Quotes, Literature Quotes, Musicians Quotes, Poets QuotesBased on Keywords: unfailing, uplifting
If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy.
Joe Flanigan
The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.
William Hamilton
It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.
John Amery