“Beautiful and minimalist, the traditional Japanese art of ikebana - arranging bouquets of cut flowers and leaves using very few elements - ideally corresponded to a form of expression I could transpose in a perfume. The smell of a rose early in the morning, damp, sprinkled with dew, delicate and light.” ArtLightBeautifulFormMorningCuttingExpressionFlowerElementsRoseSmellTraditionalDelicatePerfumeDewDampArrangingMinimalistBouquetsJapanese Art Author:Jean-Claude Ellena
“It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed with them; those that are double by their richness and pomp charm the mind, but produce nothing.” MindMaySaidSimpleProduceExpressionFlowerSeedsCharmOur ThoughtsRichness Author:Joseph Joubert
“The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language itself seems almost too gross a medium.” SeemsLanguageMankindExpressionFlowerTasteUniversalMediumsSymbolsServingSentimentsDelicateFinestGrossFitting Author:George Stillman Hillard
“Let every birthday be a festival, a time when the gladness of the house finds expression in flowers, in gifts, in a little fête. Never should a birthday be passed over without note, or as if it were a common day, never should it cease to be a garlanded milestone in the road of life.” IfsShouldLittlesHouseCommonExpressionFlowerNotesCeaseFestivalsGladnessMilestone Author:Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
“Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades and dies almost in the very moment of its maturity; yet there is, methinks, a kind of beauty which lives even to old age; a beauty that is not in the features, but, if I may be allowed the expression, shines through them. As it is not merely corporeal it is not the object of mere sense, nor is it to be discovered but by persons of true taste and refined sentiment.” IfsKindMayPersonsSaidMomentsAgeDiesBeautyObjectsExpressionFlowerTasteShiningMereOld AgeFeaturesMaturitySentimentsFadesLiteralRefined Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“Vulgarism in language is the distinguishing characteristic of bad company, and a bad education. A man of fashion avoids nothing with more care than that. Proverbial expressions, and trite sayings, are the flowers of the rhetoric of vulgar man.” MenCareLanguageCompanyFashionExpressionFlowerCharacteristicsRhetoricVulgarVulgarityProverbialBad CompanyBad Education Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Love is like a flower, and like the body, it needs constant feeding...And with love, also, cannot be expected to last forever unless it is continually fed with portions of love, the manifestation of esteem and admiration, the expressions of gratitude, and the consideration of unselfishness.” NeedsBodyLastsLove IsForeverExpressionFlowerGratitudeConstantExpectedEsteemManifestationConsiderationFedsAdmirationPortionsFeedingLove Is LikeUnselfishnessExpressions Of Gratitude Author:Spencer W. Kimball
“We will enjoy ourselves with the forms that are given us: a human face, a hand, the breast of a woman or the body of a man, a glad or sorrowful expression, the infinite seas, the wild rocks, the melancholy language of the black trees in the snow, the wild strength of spring flowers and the heavy lethargy of a hot summer day when Pan, our old friend, sleeps and the ghosts of midday whisper. This alone is enough to make us forget the grief of the world, or to give it form.” MenWorldGivingHumansEnoughBodyHandsFacesFormLanguageGivenEnjoyBlackSleepForgetGriefTreeSeaRocksExpressionFlowerSummerSpringInfiniteHotHeavyGladGhostSnowBreastsMelancholyOld FriendsSorrowfulHuman FacesSummer DaysSpring FlowersLethargyHot Summer Author:Max Beckmann
“In nature everything is valuable, everything has its place. The rose, the daisy, the lark, the squirrel, each is different but beautiful. Each has its own expression. Each flower its' own fragrance. Each bird its' own song. So you too have your own unique melody.” DifferentBeautifulSongExpressionFlowerUniqueBirdRoseValuableMelodyFragranceDaisiesSquirrelsLarks Author:Diane Dreher
“Let the children learn to see in nature an expression of the love and the wisdom of God; let the thought of Him be linked with bird and flower and tree; let all things seen become to them the interpreters of the unseen, and all the events of life be a means of divine teaching. As they learn thus to study the lessons in all created things and in all life's experiences, show that the same laws which govern the things of nature and the events of life are to control us, that they are given for our good, and that only in obedience to them can we find true happiness and success.” MeanChildrenShowsLawLife IsGivenStudyTreeTeachingEventsDivineExpressionFlowerLessonsBirdAll ThingsObedienceUnseenLinkedTrue HappinessInterpreterHappiness And Success Author:Ellen G. White
“Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.” ThinkingMeanPerfectExpressionFlowerSingingPaintSpontaneousSpontaneityViolin Book:Georgia O'Keeffe Source: Georgia O'Keeffe