Nature's Beauties

dear God,

i thank You for these beauties that i see.
they sure reflect your love and goodness to me.

i thank You because, in them i feel
the deepest joy and it is real.

i am amazed at the beauty that surrounds
thinking that You are just always around.

let me be enlightened by the truth,
that with you, i must only trust and root.

-sHenG-

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.
~Henry Beecher

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
~Emma Goldman

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
~Iris Murdoch

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
~Walt Whitman

'Tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes!
~William Wordsworth

If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom,
maybe your soul has never been in bloom.
~Audra Foveo

Have you ever seen a flower down
Sometimes angels skip around
And in their blissful state of glee
Bump into a daisy or sweet pea.
~Jessi Lane Adams

Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.
~Kahlil Gibran

When words escape, flowers speak.
~Bruce W. Currie

The best rose-bush after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns,
but that which bears the finest roses.
~Henry Van Dyke

God loved the flowers and invented soil.
Man loved the flowers and invented vases.
~Jacques Deval

Just living is not enough...
One must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.
~Hans Christian Andersen

Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.

~Lydia M. Child


Nota Bene: Special thanks goes to the hubby for taking macro shots
of these beautiful flowers in our neighborhood.