All JOHN RUSKIN Quotes about “Flowers”

“There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.”
“Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.”
“The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.”
“There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.”
“The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight.”
“You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.”
“Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is no such thing as a God. No such thing as a man, but only a mechanism, No such thing as a God, but only a series of forces.”
“You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.”
“All are to be men of genius in their degree,--rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear and pure; not dead walls encompassing dead heaps of things, known and numbered, but running waters in the sweet wilderness of things unnumbered and unknown, conscious only of the living banks, on which they partly refresh and partly reflect the flowers, and so pass on.”
“Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given themâ€”in sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures.”

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