Looking for beautiful spring quotes or a special caption to go along with your flower delivery or Intagram post, this list got you covered.
Flowers are my Love Language! My family and friends know it and most importantly I know it… when I need a pick me up, a walk in nature, to see spring wildflowers, a stroll in a flower field or a visit to a beautiful summer garden, or browsing through spring & flower quotes does the trick. Fresh flowers from Trader Joe’s or some fragrant field roses from California (I think they are the prettiest roses in the world) … always cheer me up!
Whether you are looking for a perfect Instagram caption for your spring photos or need a beautiful quote to wish a friend on their special day (with some flowers) or just want to feel the spirit of spring, read on…
I LOVE finding flower fields whether it is a lavender field closer to home near Dallas, sunflowers near Dallas, or all the way in Provence, or seeing Ranunculus fields near San Diego… twirling in gardens of Salzburg in Austria… I could go on and on…
Scroll on to see a collection of some of my favorite spring and flower quotes; linked in are some of my favorite flower fields and beautiful gardens that I was lucky to visit over the years.
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My Top Favorite Flower Quotes EVER
“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.”
– Buddha
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.” – John Muir
“Wherever life plants you, bloom with grace.”
– Old French Proverb
You probably figured it by now… I’m an Anthophile 🙂
Anthophile (plural anthophiles)
(n.) An organism that visits flowers; A person who loves flowers.
Quotes About Spring Flowers
Spring is the season of new beginnings… it’s when nature comes alive. Flowers are blooming flowers, birds are chirping, the sun is shining… and earth is smiling.
“Earth laughs in flowers.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
– Hans Christian Andersen
“If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.”
– Victor Hugo
“Flowers are like friends; They bring color to your world.”
– Unknown
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
– Gerard De Nerval
Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.
– Yoko Ono
Spring’s greatest joy beyond a doubt is when it brings the children out.
– Edgar Guest
I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.
– Ruth Stout
“Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities in the world.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Original daisies are worth more than counterfeit roses.”
– Matshona Dhliwayo
“Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.”
– John Lennon
“Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.”
– Gerard De Nerval
“Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.”
– John Harrigan
“Politeness is the flower of humanity.”
– Joseph Joubert
“Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth’s lips spoken without sound.”
– Edwin Curran
“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.”
– Max
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
– Victor Hugo
“If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.”
– Claudia Adrienne Grandi
“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.”
– Helen Keller
No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.
– Sheryl Crow
“Minds are like flowers; they open only when the time is right.”
– Stephen Richards
“Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities in the world.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too.”
– Miranda Kerr
“Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
– Albert Camus
Happy Spring Quotes
I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.
– Audrey Hepburn
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
– Georges Bernanos
After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.
– Christian Dior
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
– Luther Burbank
Where flowers bloom so does hope.”
— Lady Bird Johnson
“Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!’”
– Robin Williams
I must have flowers, always, and always.
– Claude Monet
Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.
– Yoko Ono
“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
– Margaret Atwood
I believe in the process. I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter’s tough, but spring’s coming. I believe that there’s a growing season. And I think that you realize that in life, you grow. You get better.
– Steve Southerland
Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.
– Jim Carrey
A flower’s appeal is in its contradictions — so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect.
– Terri Guillemets
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Sunflower Quotes
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It’s what sunflowers do.”
– Helen Keller
A satellite dish for sunshine. Wherever light is, no matter how weak, these flowers will find it… such an admirable thing and a lesson in life.”
– Helen Mirren
“Turn your face to the sun, and shadows follow behind you.”
– Maori Proverb
“If roses tried to be sunflowers, they would lose their beauty; and if sunflowers tried to be roses, they would lose their strength.”
– Matshona Dhliwayo
“Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Sunflowers end up facing the sun, but they go through a lot of dirt to find their way there.”
– J.R. Rim
“A sunflower field is like a sky with a thousand suns.”
– Corina Abdulahm-Negura
“The sunflower is mine, in a way.”
– Vincent Van Gogh
Quotes About Roses
“This love is the rose that blooms forever.”
– Rumi
“The world is a rose, smell it, and pass it to your friends.”
– Persian Proverb
You are reborn with the roses, in every spring.
– Juan Ramón Jiménez
“Those who don’t pick roses in summer won’t pick them in winter either.”
– German Proverb
“A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.”
– Chinese Proverb
“No rose without a thorn.”
– French Proverb
“True friendship is like a rose, we don’t realize its beauty until it fades.”
– Anonymous
“A woman is like a rose…If you take good care of her, you will see love blossom.”
– Anonymous
“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.”
– Leo Buscaglia
I go to nature to be soothed and healed and to have my senses put in order. – John Burroughs
Flowers are love’s truest language.
– Park Benjamin
“Own your happiness, buy yourself flowers.”
– Priya Vin
Cheeky Flower Quotes & Captions (for Instagram)
Plant smiles, grow laughter, harvest love.
Flowers don’t tell, they show.
Springing into the season.
Hope you have a sweet Spring, a super Summer, a fantastic Fall, and… well, let’s not talk about that other season right now.
“A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.”
– Jane Fonda
Spring is Mother Nature at her best.
Happy First Day of Spring! It’s time to shake off the cold and Spring to life!
“Despite the forecast, live like it’s Spring.”
– Lilly Pulitzer
After a long March, April always puts a little spring in my step.
When in doubt, add flowers.
April showers bring May flowers.
It’s a great day to stop and smell the roses.
Bring on the flip-flops, green grass, blooming flowers, and singing birds.
Bee happy.
Inspiring Spring Quotes
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
~ Lao Tzu
A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It simply blooms.
– Zen Shin
Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.
– Luther Burbank
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
– John Burroughs
To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.
– Audrey Hepburn
Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds. You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.
“An optimist is the human personification of spring.”
– Susan J. Bissonette
If frolicking amongst flowers is one of your favorite pastime… You might also like to go on a “virtual trip” to these Gardens:
Inside look at Lotusland, one the best Gardens in the World
Spring at the Dallas Arboretum
Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden in Cape Town
Butchart Gardens in Victoria
Fall Colors in Fort Worth Japanese Garden
Betty Ford Alpine Gardens in Vail
Ooty Botanical Garden in South India
I hope these quotes and famous sayings about nature, spring, flowers… encourage you to slow down, to stop to smell the roses and cherishing those small moments in life… beause afterall those small things add up to be the big things afterall!
Want a FREE downloadable PDF of all these Beautiful Quotes so you can keep them handy for inspiration, email me, and will send you a copy. You can also save the images to your phone 🙂
Do you have a favorite flower quote or quotes about spring that inspires you? Make sure to share it in the comments section.
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