Gardens of Delight

Gardens of Delight - Poems & Quotes

“Break open
A cherry tree
And there are no flowers,
But in the spring breeze
Brings forth myriad blossoms.”
Ikkyu Sojun 1394-1481

“ I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech tree, or a yellow birch, or an old aquaintance among the pines”
Henry David Thoreau

“ If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft,
And of thy meager store
Two loaves alone to thee are left,
Sell one, and with the dole
Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.”
Sheikh Muslih-Uddin Saadi Shirazi The Gulistan of Saadi 1270

“ Different flowers look good to different people”
Chinese proverb

“ In the cherry blossom’s shade
There is no such thing
As a stranger”
Issa

“ There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to bloom”
Anais Nin

“ Observe this dew-drenched rose of Tyrian gardens
A rose today, But you will ask in vain
Tomorrow what it is: and yesterday
It was the dust, the sunshine and the rains.”
Christina Rosetti

I perhaps owe becoming a painter to flowers.”
Claud Monet

“ Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come”
Chinese proverb.

“ Trees serve as homes for visiting devas who do not manifest in earthly bodies, but live in the fibers of the trunks and larger branches of the trees, feed from the leaves and communicate through the tree itself. Some are permanently stationed as guardians of sacred places.”
Hindu Deva Shastra verse 117