Summer explodes into Portland. In early June the heat was there but not the color--the green were still pale and tentative, the morning had a biting coolness--but by the last week of school everything is Technicolor and splash, outrageous blue skies and purple thunderstorms and ink-black night skies and red flowers as brights as spots of blood.
For a lovely bowl Let us arrange these flowers. . . For there is no rice
Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.
Welcome as the flowers in May.
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
At the highest level of awareness, the greatest gift given and received when you give someone flowers, is the joy of living a life based on love.
who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.
We blossom under praise like flowers in sun and dew; we open, we reach, we grow.
I’ll have you know that the most delicate flowers often produce the strongest scent when crushed.
Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.
The window-lights, myriads and myriads,Bloom from the walls like climbing flowers.
These stars of earth, these golden flowers.
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
My field-mouse had made a set of brand-new tracks; here and there they etched themselves, following the brown flowers. It seemed as if uncommon spirits had seized their little maker, for sometimes he had leaped a yard, the festive mite! There was no other track pursuing; the leaps must have been mere joy.
Fortunate are the nations that can build wooden houses. Because wood breathes, transforms, deteriorates, like us. It is also important to have flowers and plants where we live, because they breathe, too. Contemplating a flower for three seconds can be a captivating solitary journey back to original geometry, which is always revitalizing.
We are like flowers always reaching up towards some shred of light. I find this wondrous, nearly magical, certainly brave.
I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive.
Deep at the bottom of the well no warmth has yet returned, The rain which sighs and feels so cold has dampened withered roots. What sort of man at such a time would come to visit the teacher? As this is not a time for flowers, I find I've come alone.
Also known as May Eve, May Day, and Walpurgis Night, happens at the beginning of May. It celebrates the height of Spring and the flowering of life. The Goddess manifests as the May Queen and Flora. The God emerges as the May King and Jack in the Green. The danced Maypole represents Their unity, with the pole itself being the God and the ribbons that encompass it, the Goddess. Colors are the Rainbow spectrum. Beltane is a festival of flowers, fertility, sensuality, and delight.
Even on the road to hell, flowers can make you smile.