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[[File:Coquelicots bleuets champagne sur loue 006.jpg|thumb| As for [[mortal]] [[man]], his [[days]] are like those of green [[grass]]; like a blossom of the [[field]] is the way he blossoms forth. For a mere [[wind]] has to pass over it, and it is no more; and its [[place]] will [[acknowledge]] it no further. But the [[loving]]-[[kindness]] of [[Jehovah]] is from [[time]] indefinite even to time indefinite toward those [[fearing]] him, and his [[righteousness]] to the [[sons]] of sons, to those who keep his [[covenant]] and [[remember]] to [[do]] his [[commandments]]. </br> ~ [[David]] </br> [[Psalms]] 103:15-
'''[[w:Flowers|Flowers]]''', sometimes known as blooms or blossoms, are the reproductive structures found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms). The biological function of a flower is to mediate the union of male sperm with female ovum in order to produce [[seeds]]. The process begins with pollination, is followed by fertilization, leading to the formation and dispersal of the seeds. For the higher plants, seeds are the next generation, and serve as the primary means by which individuals of a species are dispersed across the landscape. The grouping of flowers on a plant is called the inflorescence.
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==Quotes==
===Generally===
[[File:Alpen-Berufkraut (?) - Jägerkamp - Aiplspitz (9800304986).jpg|thumb|The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn,<br>And violets bathe in the wet o' the morn. ~ [[Robert Burns]]]]
[[File:Bella Coola trip (5892955542).jpg|thumb|Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold. ~ [[James Russell Lowell
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[[File:A stroll in Cheam Lake Wetlands, Chilliwack, BC - (18291458824).jpg|thumb|Without our fully realizing it, flowers would become for us an expression in form of that which is most high, most sacred, and ultimately formless within ourselves. ~ [[Eckhart Tolle]]]]
[[File:Stilleven met bloemen Rijksmuseum SK-A-3454.jpeg|thumb|Color is the ultimate in art. It is still and will always remain a mystery to us, we can only apprehend it intuitively in flowers. ~ [[W:Philip Otto Runge|Philipp Otto Runge]]]]
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:And its place will acknowledge it no further.
:But the loving-kindness of [[Jehovah]] is from time indefinite even to time indefinite
:Toward those fearing him, and his [[righteousness]] to the sons of sons
:to those who keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments.
:* [[David]], [[Psalms]] 103:15-18
* But the flower leaned aside <br> And thought of naught to say, <br> And morning found the breeze <br> A hundred miles away.
** [[Robert Frost]], ''Wind and Window Flower, {{w|A Boy’s Will}}'' (1915)
* There grew a little flower<br>'Neath a great oak tree:<br>When the tempest 'gan to lower<br>Little heeded she:<br>No need had she to cower,<br>For she dreaded not its power –<br>She was happy in the bower<br>Of her great oak tree!<br>Of her great oak tree!<br>Sing hey, Lackaday!<br>Sing hey, Lackaday!<br>Let the tears fall free<br>For the pretty little flower<br>And the great oak tree!
** [[W. S. Gilbert]], from ''Ruddigore'' (1887).
* The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
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* I sometimes think that never blows so red<br>The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled;<br>That every Hyacinth the Garden wears<br>Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
** [[Omar Khayyam]], ''[[Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam]]'' (1120), Stanza 19. FitzGerald's translation.
* One thing is certain and the rest is lies;<br>The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.
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*The first recognition of [[beauty]] was one of the most significant events in the evolution of human consciousness. The feelings of joy and love are intrinsically connected to that recognition. Without our fully realizing it, flowers would become for us an expression in form of that which is most high, most sacred, and ultimately formless within ourselves. Flowers... would become like messengers from another realm, like a bridge between the world of physical forms and the formless. They not only had a scent that was delicate and pleasing to humans, but also brought a fragrance from the realm of spirit. Using the word “[[Enlightenment (spiritual)|enlightenment]]” in a wider sense than the conventionally accepted one, we could look upon flowers as the enlightenment of plants.
**[[Eckhart Tolle|Eckhart Tolle,]] in ''A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose'' (2005)
* One cannot grow fine flowers in a thin soil.
** [[Virginia Woolf]], ''Women and Writing'' (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979), p. 54. Also in {{cite book |title=The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1929-1932 |date=1986 |publisher=Hogarth Press |isbn=978-0-7012-0670-3 |page=122 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Essays_of_Virginia_Woolf_1929_1932/gZYrAQAAIAAJ?hl=en-419&gbpv=1&bsq=%22One+cannot+grow+fine+flowers+in+a+thin+soil.%22&dq=%22One+cannot+grow+fine+flowers+in+a+thin+soil.%22&printsec=frontcover}}
* Now when the primrose makes a splendid show,<br>And lilies face the March-winds in full blow,<br>And humbler growths as moved with one desire<br>Put on, to welcome spring, their best attire,<br>Poor Robin is yet flowerless; but how gay<br>With his red stalks upon this sunny day!
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* To me the meanest flower that blows can give<br>Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
** [[William Wordsworth]], ''Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood'' (1803).
* How cruel of you. What part of what you see here is carefree? If only you could understand the sadness of the ones who grow the delicate flowers of buffoonery, protecting them from but the slightest gust of wind and always on the verge of despair!
** [[Osamu Dazai]], ''The Flowers of Buffoonery'' (1935).
====''Paradise Lost''====
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* The foxglove, with its stately bells<br>Of purple, shall adorn thy dells;<br>The wallflower, on each rifted rock,<br>From liberal blossoms shall breathe down,<br>(Gold blossoms frecked with iron-brown,)<br>Its fragrance; while the hollyhock,<br>The pink, and the carnation vie<br>With lupin and with lavender,<br>To decorate the fading year;<br>And larkspurs, many-hued, shall drive<br>Gloom from the groves, where red leaves lie,<br>And Nature seems but half alive.
** [[D. M.
* Yet, no, not words, for they<br>But half can tell love's feeling;<br>Sweet flowers alone can say<br>What passion fears revealing:<br>A once bright rose's wither'd leaf,<br>A tow'ring lily broken, , <br>Oh, these may paint a grief<br>No words could e'er have spoken.
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*"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.<br>"Oh, sir! the flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
** [[Peter Newell]], ''Wild Flowers''.
* He bore a simple wild-flower wreath:<br>Narcissus, and the sweet brier rose;<br>Vervain, and flexile thyme, that breathe<br>Rich fragrance; modest heath, that glows<br>With purple bells; the amaranth bright,<br>That no decay, nor fading knows,<br>Like true love's holiest, rarest light;<br>And every purest flower, that blows<br>In that sweet time, which Love most blesses,<br>When spring on summer's confines presses.
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** [[Alfred Tennyson]], ''The Lotos-Eaters'', Choric Song, Part I.
*Earth, 114 million years ago, one morning just after sunrise: The first flower ever to appear on the planet opens up to receive the rays of the sun. Prior to this momentous event that heralds an evolutionary transformation in the life of plants, the planet had already been covered in vegetation for millions of years. The first flower probably did not survive for long, and flowers must have remained rare and isolated phenomena, since conditions were most likely not yet favorable for a widespread flowering to occur. One day, however, a critical threshold was reached, and suddenly there would have been an explosion of color and scent all over the planet – if a perceiving [[consciousness]] had been there to witness it. Much later, those delicate and fragrant beings we call flowers would come to play an essential part in the evolution of consciousness of another species. Humans would increasingly be drawn to and fascinated by them.
* Along the river's summer walk,<br>The withered tufts of asters nod;<br>And trembles on its arid stalk<br>The hoar plume of the golden-rod.<br>And on a ground of sombre fir,<br>And azure-studded juniper,<br>The silver birch its buds of purple shows,<br>And scarlet berries tell where bloomed the sweet wild-rose!▼
**[[Eckhart Tolle]], [[A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose|''A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose'']] (2005)
*As the consciousness of human beings developed, flowers were most likely the first thing they came to value that had no utilitarian purpose for them, that is to say, was not linked in some way to survival. They provided inspiration to countless artists, poets, and mystics. [[Jesus]] tells us to contemplate the flowers and learn from then how to live. [[The Buddha]] is said to have given a “silent sermon” once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After a while, one of those present, a monk called [[W:Mahakasyapa|Mahakasyapa]], began to smile. He is said to have been the only one who had understood the sermon. According to legend, that smile (that is to say, [[realization]]) was handed down by twentyeight successive masters and much later became the origin of [[Zen]].
**[[Eckhart Tolle]], ''A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose'' (2005)
*Seeing [[beauty]] in a flower could [[awaken]] humans, however briefly, to the beauty that is an essential part of their own innermost being, their [[Higher self|true nature]]. The first recognition of [[beauty]] was one of the most significant events in the [[evolution]] of human [[consciousness]]. The feelings of [[joy]] and [[love]] are intrinsically connected to that recognition. Without our fully realizing it, flowers would become for us an expression in form of that which is most high, most sacred, and ultimately formless within ourselves. Flowers... would become like messengers from another realm, like a bridge between the world of physical forms and the formless. They not only had a scent that was delicate and pleasing to humans, but also brought a fragrance from the realm of spirit. Using the word [[“enlightenment”]] in a wider sense than the conventionally accepted one, we could look upon flowers as the enlightenment of plants... they are, of course, temporary manifestations of the underlying one Life, one Consciousness. Their special significance and the reason why humans feel such fascination for and affinity with them can be attributed to their ethereal quality.
**[[Eckhart Tolle]], [[A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose|''A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose'']] (2005)
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** [[John Greenleaf Whittier]]'', ''The Last Walk in Autumn''.
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** [[Oscar Wilde]], ''Athanasia'', Stanza 2.
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===Specific types===
====[[w:Anemone|Anemone]]====
[[File:Anemones5.jpg|thumb|right|
[[File:Piet Mondrian - Anemones in a Vase (14582219101).jpg|thumb|right|Anemone, so well<br>Named of the wind, to which thou art all free.]]
* Within the woods,<br>Whose young and half transparent leaves scarce cast<br>A shade, gray circles of anemones<br>Danced on their stalks.▼
** [[William Cullen Bryant]], ''The Old Man's Counsel'' (1840), published in ''The United States Magazine and Democratic Review'' (1840), p. 111.
* From the soft wing of vernal breezes shed,<br>Anemones, auritulas, enriched<br>With shining meal o'er all their velvet leaves.
** [[James Thomson (poet)|James Thomson]], ''The Seasons'', ''Spring'' (1728), line 533.
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=====''Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations'' (1922) =====
:<small>Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 26.</small>
* Thy subtle charm is strangely given,<br>My fancy will not let thee be,
▲* Within the woods,<br>Whose young and half transparent leaves scarce cast<br>A shade, gray circles of anemones<br>Danced on their stalks.
▲* Thy subtle charm is strangely given,<br>My fancy will not let thee be, , <br>Then poise not thus 'twixt earth and heaven,<br>O white anemone!
** [[Elaine Goodale]], ''Anemone''.
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====[[w:Apple blossom|Apple blossom]]====
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=====''Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations'' (1922) =====
:<small>Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 38.</small>
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* Hail to the King of Bethlehem,<br>Who weareth in his diadem<br>The yellow crocus for the gem<br> Of his authority!
** [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], ''Christus'', Part II, ''The Golden Legend'' (1872), IX
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====[[w:Lilac|Lilac]] <small>(''Syringa Vulgaris'')</small>====
[[File:Stockholm-lilac.jpg|thumb|right|The purple clusters load the lilac-bushes.]]
* …The thornless lilacs summon up no dread,<br>Demand no witness. Flower, branch, and leaf<br>Are only what they are. They have no words<br>For us to ponder, though we sometimes feign<br>To speak for them, as augury of birds<br>Construes an omen of impending pain.
** Joseph S. Salemi, [https://classicalpoets.org/2024/03/29/the-lilacs-on-good-friday-a-poem-by-joseph-s-salemi/ "The Lilacs on Good Friday"], ''The Society of Classical Poets'' (March 29, 2024)
=====''Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations'' (1922) =====
:<small>Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 457.</small>
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====[[w:Lotus|Lotus]] <small>(''Zizyphus Lotus, Nelumbo Nucifera'')</small>====
{{main|Lotus}}
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[[File:Magnòlia a Verbania.JPG|thumb|Majestic flower! How purely beautiful<br> Thou art…]]
* Fragrant o'er all the western groves<br>The tall magnolia towers unshaded.
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* Majestic flower! How purely beautiful<br> Thou art, as rising from thy bower of green,<br>Those dark and glossy leaves so thick and full,<br> Thou standest like a high-born forest queen<br>Among thy maidens clustering round so fair
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* '''I [[Awakening|wake]] to "[[magnolias]] sweet and fresh", <br /> Lines of [[poetry]] on my breath''', <br />You were here but you have stolen away. <br />My [[inspiration]] is an evening [[star]], <br />So come to me wherever you are, <br />I will wait for you tonight alone in the [[dark]]…
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====[[w:Marigold|Marigold]] <small>(''Tagetes'')</small>====
{{Main|Marigolds}}
[[File:R10 kamera049be22.jpg|thumb|right|The marigold abroad her leaves doth spread,<br>Because the sun's and her power is the same.]]
[[File:UIUC Arboretum 20070922 img 1764.jpg|thumb|right|Open afresh your round of starry folds,<br>Ye ardent marigolds!<br>Dry up the moisture from your golden lips.]]
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:<small>Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 494-495.</small>
* The marigold, whose [[courtier]]'s face<br>Echoes the sun, and doth unlace<br>Her at his rise, at his full stop<br>Packs and shuts up her gaudy shop.
** [[John Cleveland]], ''On Phillis Walking Before Sunrise''.
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* No marigolds yet closed are,<br>No shadows great appeare.
** [[Robert Herrick]], ''
* Open afresh your round of starry folds,<br>Ye ardent marigolds!<br>Dry up the moisture from your golden lips.
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* Nor shall the marigold unmentioned die,<br>Which Acis once found out in Sicily;<br>She Phoebus loves, and from him draws his hue,<br>And ever keeps his golden beams in view.
** [[w:René Rapin|René Rapin]], in his ''Latin Poem on Gardens'', translated by Gardiner in 1706.
* When with a serious musing I behold<br>The graceful and obsequious marigold,<br>How duly every morning she displays<br>Her open breast, when Titan spreads his rays.
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====[[w:Tuberose|Tuberose]] <small>(''
* The tuberose, with her silvery light,<br> That in the gardens of Malay<br>Is call'd the Mistress of the Night,<br>So like a bride, scented and bright;<br> She comes out when the sun's away.
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====[[w:Viola (plant)|Violet]] <small>(''Viola odorata'')</small>====
{{Main|Violets}}
* Violets! — deep-blue violets!<br>April's loveliest coronets!<br>There are no flowers grow in the vale,<br>Kiss'd by the dew, wooed by the gale, —<br>None by the dew of the twilight wet,<br>So sweet as the deep-blue violet!
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