Friday Faves: Our Top 10 Favourite Quotes About Flowers

Welcome to a new feature on the Bloomex Blog, Friday Faves, where we'll list our favourites on a given topic. This week, let's start things off by looking at some of the great quotes about flowers throughout the ages.

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What would we do without flowers? As a gorgeous part of the natural world, and as a natural metaphor, people from all walks of life have espoused on the beauty and meaning of flowers throughout history. From musicians, to painters, to authors, flowers have represented a certain gorgeous purity that increasingly feels lost in the hectic, modern world.

Spoken by the wildly famous as well as the relatively obscure, here's our list of ten favourite flower quotes, compiled largely from BrainyQuote and GoodReads:

10.

“I must have flowers, always, and always.”
― Claude Monet

9.

“The earth laughs in flowers.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

8.

"I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring."
- Kirsty Gallacher

7.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
- James Russell Lowell

6.

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
- Gerard De Nerval

5.

"Earth is a flower and it's pollinating."
- Neil Young

4.

"A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love."
- Max Muller

3.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."
- Albert Camus

2.

“A weed is but an unloved flower.”
― Ella Wheeler Wilcox

1.

“One person's weed is another person's wildflower.”
― Susan Wittig Albert