Do you love spending time in nature, surrounded by the beauty of plants and flowers? If so, you will definitely appreciate these 143 wildflower quotes! These inspiring quotes will make you see the world around you in a whole new light, and they are sure to get your creative juices flowing. So take a few minutes to relax and enjoy these wonderful words of wisdom about our natural world.
Wildflower Quotes
- “Gather courage like wildflowers.” – Jak Major
- “Do you suppose she’s a wildflower?” – Lewis Carroll
- “Wildflowers don’t care where they grow.” – Dolly Parton
- “Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.” – John Lennon.
- “Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!” -Lady Bird Johnson.
- “Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands.” -Japanese Proverb.
- “They are wildflowers. They would not want a name.” – Silas House.
- “Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” – Gerard De Nerval.
- “They are wildflowers. They would not want a name.” – Silas House
- “There is poetry among the wildflowers.” – Rachel Irene Stevenson
- “One person’s **** is another person’s wildflower.” – Susan Wittig Albert.
- “The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius.
- “How do you press a wildflower into the pages of an e -book?” – Lewis Buzbee.
- “She is a little wildflower with a lot of warrior underneath.” – Melody Lee
- “Flowers didn’t ask to be flowers and I didn’t ask to be me.” -Kurt Vonnegut.
- “Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.” – Shannon M. Mullen
- “Wildflowers adapt and bloom wherever they want. Be a wildflower.” – Aly Aubrey
- “The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.” – Robert Leighton.
- “To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.” – William Blake
- “You can be a warrior and be full of grace and class.” -Drew Barrymore, ‘Wildflower’.
- “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.” – Pablo Neruda.
- “She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes.” -Arundhati Roy.
- “Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.” – Aberjhani.
- “I don’t care, if everybody in the whole world laughs…” – Alice Guthrie, ‘Wildflower’.
- “Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
- “Flowers whisper ‘Beauty!’ to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall.” – Dr. SunWolf.
- “Color does not add a pleasant quality to design – it reinforces it.” – Pierre Bonnard.
- “What a lonely place it would be to have a world without a wildflower!” – Roland R Kemler.
- “The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.” – John Ruskin.
- “It is no use trying to improve on children’s names for wildflowers.” – Mary Hunter Austin.
- “A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” – Max Muller.
- “What a lonely place it would be to have a world without a wildflower!” – Roland R. Kemler
- “It is no use trying to improve on children’s names for wildflowers.” – Mary Hunter Austin
- “Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.” – Sigmund Freud.
- “In life, you either choose to sing a rainbow, or you don’t. Keep singing.” – Kathleen Long.
- “She beats to the beauty of her wildflower heart and seashore soul.” – Angie Weiland -Crosby
- “It will create an excitement that will sweep the country like wildflowers.” – Samuel Goldwyn.
- “In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.” – Hans Hofmann.
- “Love is like wildflowers; It’s often found in the most unlikely places.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
- “Colour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings.” – Marion Milner.
- “Don’t let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden.” -Steve Maraboli.
- “I was a wildflower that would continue to grow in the most unexpected weather.” – Taisha De Anza
- “Wildflower corners are easy to maintain, but once gone, they are hard to rebuild.” – Aldo Leopold.
- “The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.” – D. H. Lawrence.
- “Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this?” – Pablo Picasso.
- “Wildflower corners are easy to maintain, but once gone, they are hard to rebuild.” – Aldo Leopold
- “Wildflowers aren’t meant to be cut & tamed. They’re meant to be loved & admired.” -Anthony T. Hincks.
- “No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.” – Sheryl Crow.
- “If we could see the miracle of a single flower, clearly our whole life would change.” – Gautama Buddha.
- “No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.” – Sheryl Crow
- “Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature.” – Walter J. Phillips.
- “The smallest of them was sprawled on his belly, face buried in a mound of wildflowers.” – Sarah J. Mass
- “Be Authentic. Be yourself. And most important of all… make it personal.” – Drew Barrymore, ‘Wildflower’.
- “Be uniquely you. Stand out. Shine. Be colorful. The world needs your prismatic soul!” – Amy Leigh Mercree.
- “Wildflowers aren’t meant to be cut and tamed. They’re meant to be loved and admired.” – Anthony T. Hincks
- “The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.” – Edvard Munch.
- “Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colors; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.” – Kahlil Gibran.
- “Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.” – Rumi.
- “Like wildflowers, you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.” – Lorde
- “Chase your wildflower dreams, because even the smallest buds can become something beautiful.” – C.V. Sutherland
- “May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.” – Native American Proverb.
- “Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.” – Lady Bird Johnson
- “Forever that girl who gets excited running through a wildflower meadow under a sugar coral sky.” – Labhandar Rós
- “My name is Chloe I’m 20 I still have a hard time letting people get close to me but each day…” -Chloe, ‘Wildflower’.
- “Let me drink from the waters where the mountain streams floodLet the smell of wildflowers flow free through my blood
- “Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
- “Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.” – Ikkyu Sojun.
- “Beautiful wildflower—be free and reach for the sun, live in all your colors, and grow so untamed.” – Butterflies Rising
- “The hills were alive with wildflowers and I was as wild, even wilder than they, for at least I could run.” – Dolly Parton
- “I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it’s at its most powerful.” – A.S. Byatt.
- “When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.” – Chinese Proverb.
- “‘Wildflowers?’ she asked, confused. ‘She said you liked them. She said to tell you to braid them into your hair.’” – Cat Patrick
- “And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton.
- “I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.” – Georgia O’Keeffe.
- “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.
- “Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.” – Oscar Wilde.
- “All the other colors are just colors, but purple seems to have a soul — when you look at it, it’s looking back at you.” – Uniek Swain.
- “The hills were alive with wildflowers and IWas as wild, even wilder than they, For at least I could run…” – Dolly Parton, ‘Wildflowers’.
- “The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.” – Chanakya.
- “Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars?” -Nora Roberts.
- “She sprouted love like flowers, grew a garden in her mind, and even on the darkest days, from her smile the sun still shined.” -Erin Hanson.
- “There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension of existence.” -Rumi.
- “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.
- “There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension of existence.” – Rumi
- “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.
- “Wildflowers can’t be controlled, and neither can the girl with a soul boundless as the sky, and a spirit as free and wild as the ocean.” -Melody Lee.
- “To those whom the tree, the birds, the wildflowers represent only locked -up dollars have never known or really seen these things.” – Edwin Way Teale
- “You belong among the wildflowers You belong in a boat out at sea You belong with your love on your arm You belong somewhere you feel free” – Tom Petty.
- “I’m going to give you a handful of wildflowers so, each petal that falls will remind you that the earth breathes, and the moon rises.” – Carolyn Riker
- “Wildflowers don’t grow haphazardly us we are led to believe. They grow in fantastic patterns which are different to each of us you see.” -Anthony T. Hnicks
- “Like a wildflower, she spent her days allowing herself to grow. Not many people knew of her struggle but, eventually, all knew of her light.” – Nikki Rowe
- “My lesson here was you do not give up. You hold yourself accountable. You stay grateful. You hold on tight to your friends.” – Drew Barrymore, ‘Wildflower’.
- “Make it so the poor are no longer despised and thrown away. Look at them standing about—like wildflowers, which have nowhere else to grow.” – Philip Yancey
- “To a slow clock of condensation,An echo trapped for ever, and a flutter, Of wildflowers in the lift -shaft… And in a disused shed in Co. Wexford.” -Derek Mahon.
- “Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors… for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.” – Vincent van Gogh.
- “To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring—these are some of the rewards of the simple life.” – John Burroughs
- “Wildflowers are the loveliest of all because they grow in uncultivated soil, in those hard, rugged places where no one expects them to flourish.” -Micheline Ryckman.
- “We may not be able to do them all, but it is a safe place to dream. And sometimes, if you really work hard enough, dreams come true.” – Drew Barrymore, ‘Wildflower’.
- “If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers.” – Therese of Lisieux
- “Dear outsiders, even the most beautiful of wildflowers are considered weeds in the wrong gardens—what another thinks of you does not dictate your value.” – Beau Taplin
- “Ellie Perkins: What do you say, Grammie? Will you tutor her? Bessie Morgan: Tutor her? Child, I don’t think my house can survive tutoring her….” – ‘Wildflower’, 1991.
- “The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color of its surroundings.” – Eugene Delacroix.
- “Alice Guthrie: Why? Why am I not like everybody else? I want to be… Sammy Perkins: What? What you want to be? Alice Guthrie: I want to be a real girl…” -‘Wildflower’, 1991.
- “Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the *****.” – John Steinbeck
- “Being preoccupied with our self -image is like being deaf and blind. It’s like standing in the middle of a vast field of wildflowers with a black hood over our heads.” – Pema Chodron
- “The sunlight dances in her hair as she reaches for the sky. She loves the rain, her spirit is free, she is the most beautiful wildflower that grows by the sea.” – Christy Ann Martine
- “I think I like wildflowers best. They just grow wherever they want. No one has to plant them. And then their seeds blow in the wind and they find a new place to grow.” – Rebecca Donovan
- “Colors produce a corresponding spiritual vibration, and it is only as a step towards this spiritual vibration that the elementary physical impression is of importance.” – Wassily Kandinsky.
- “All that mattered was the hum of the bees and the chirp of birdsong, the way the sun gleamed on the edge of a blue wildflower, the distant bleat and clink of grazing goats.” -Alison Croggon.
- “In another time’s forgotten space, your eyes looked through your mother’s face, Wildflower seed on the sand and stone, may the four winds blow you safely home. Roll away… the dew.” -Robert Hunter.
- “Nobody but a person fond of Natural History can imagine the pleasure of strolling under cocoa -nuts in a thicket of bananas and coffee -plants, and an endless number of wildflowers.” – Charles Darwin.
- “One basic weakness in a conservation system based wholly on economic motives is that most members of the land community have no economic value. Wildflowers and songbirds are examples.” -Aldo Leopold.
- “We are the bird’s eggs. Bird’s eggs, flowers, butterflies, rabbits, cows, sheep, we are caterpillars; we are leaves of ivy and springs of wildflower. We are women. We rise from the wave.” – Susan Griffin
- “I dream of a quiet man who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows where the rarest wildflowers are blooming, and who goes, and finds that he is smiling not by his own will.” – Wendell Berry
- “I get better and I’m open to trusting more trusting things will work out for me that all my scars will start to fade and perhaps as they fade I’ll be set free I’ll finally feel free.” – Chloe, ‘Wildflower’.
- “One of the best gifts you can give a poet is to present them with field guides – to rocks, to stars, to birds, to wildflowers, to trees and bushes, to butterflies, to reptiles and amphibians.” – Marge Piercy.
- “A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wildflower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East.”— Henry David Thoreau.
- “My 20s were about exploring love and being a wildflower and trying to figure everything out. Now I’m not comfortable being that happy wildflower anymore, but I still don’t feel like a woman.” – Drew Barrymore
- “I wake up thinking: What am I reading? What will I read next? I’m terrified that I’ll run out, that I will read through all I want to, and be forced to learn wildflowers at last, to keep awake.” -Annie Dillard.
- “My twenties were about exploring love and being a wildflower and trying to figure everything out. Now I’m not comfortable being that happy wildflower anymore, but I still don’t feel like a woman.” – Drew Barrymore.
- “It’s ironic that we rush through being single as if it’s some disease or malady to get rid of or overcome. The truth is, most likely, one day you will meet someone and it will be gone.” – Drew Barrymore, ‘Wildflower’.
- “This dramatic, hearty flower with its deep maroon made me so happy. I was so in love with its color, and it taught me that beauty could live in a seedy area. Not only live but also be strong!” – Drew Barrymore, ‘Wildflower’.
- “Grief is like a wildflower. It can erupt from the ground anywhere it chooses, when it blossoms we must be careful not to step on it. Instead, we honor its existence and appreciate that love made it bloom.” – Zoe Clark -Coates
- “I dream of a quiet manwho explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows, who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knowswhere the rarest wildflowers, where the rarest wildflowersare blooming…” – Wendell Berry.
- “I was so struck by the magnificent beauty of the sunset, I sat there, quiet. The silence allowed me to ask myself: What if I did get the chance at life all over again? What would I do differently?” – Drew Barrymore, ‘Wildflower’.
- “It’s okay if you’re not yet where you want to be. Remember: you don’t always notice the sun rising in the sky until, one day, you feel it’s warmth touching your face and you realise how much you have grown.” – Elle Fanning, ‘Wildflowers’.
- “I hope you are blessed with a heart like a wildflower. Strong enough to rise again after being trampled upon, tough enough to weather the worst of summer storms, and able to grow and flourish even in the most broken places.” – Nikita Gill
- “I felt small, the way an ant must feel looking up at a field of wildflowers. I was nothing. I was trapped below flowers, buried under them, while girls like Lizzie Lovett danced overhead. That was life. We all have a place.” -Chelsea Sedoti.
- “Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees… but a forest is also made up of ordinary trees, patches of *****, puddles, clinging vines, mushrooms, and little wildflowers.” – Roberto Bolano.
- “It’s okay if you’re not yet where you want to be. Remember: you don’t always notice the sun rising in the sky until, one day, you feel it’s warmth touching your face and you realise how much you have grown.” – April Green, ‘Becoming A Wildflower’.
- “Now it looks no different from a patch of wildflowers growing in the forest. You could walk right by it, and never know it was there. Except that I do. It’s my landmark, now. I’ll always know how far I am from this spot. From her.” – Amie Kaufman
- “My friendship – it is not in my power to give… a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.” – William Wordsworth.
- “Wildflowers, I envy them. They’re brave. seeds cast by the wind to land where they may, they stay and hold against most hot, most cold. They persevered, roots shallow yet fierce and free. They epitomize to me all that I sometimes yearn to be.” – Julie Andrews
- “Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind, and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.” – Nora Roberts
- “I didn’t wave my daisy. I felt small, the way an ant must feel looking up at a field of wildflowers. I was nothing. I was trapped below flowers, buried under them, while girls like Lizzie Lovett danced overhead. That was life. We all have a place.” – Chelsea Sedoti
- “Let’s be wildflowers; let our souls be scattered by the wind. Let us grow, wild and free, tall and brave, in the places that we dream, in the places where our longings are filled. Let us grow between the cracks of brokenness, and we will make everything beautiful.” – G.C.
- “Here’s the thing about wildflowers—they take root wherever they are, grow strong through the wind, rain, pain, sunshine, blue skies, and starless nights they dance, even when it seems there is nothing worth dancing for they bloom with or without you.” – Alisha Christensen
- “No matter what conditions look like around you, keep on believing, keep on persisting, keep on going, keep on growing. Just like wildflowers grow wherever they choose, no matter the conditions, be and be becoming all that you were created to be and become.” – Sandra C. Bibb
- “Man has created some lovely dwellings, some soul -stirring literature. He has done much to alleviate physical pain. But he has not created a substitute for a sunset, a grove of pines, the music of the winds, the dank smell of the deep forest, or the shy beauty of a wildflower.” – Harvey Broome
- “It is easier to tell a person what life is not, rather than to tell them what it is. A child understands weeds that grow from lack of attention, in a garden. However, it is hard to explain the wildflowers that one gardener calls weeds, and another considers beautiful ground cover.” – Shannon L. Alder
- “I think that people tend to associate the word ‘wild’ with something that is used up and dirty; but I associate the word ‘wild’ with wildflowers, wild roses, things in fields that haven’t been hurt yet! So let’s be things in fields that have healed and that have grown. Let’s be wild.” – C. JoyBell C.
- “Let me drink from the waters where the mountain streams flood Let the smell of wildflowers flow free through my blood Let me sleep in your meadows with the green grassy leaves Let me walk down the highway with my brother in peace Let me die in my footsteps Before I go down under the ground.” – Bob Dylan
- “Wildflowers are the loveliest of all because they grow in uncultivated soil, in those hard, rugged places where no one expects them to flourish. They are resilient in ways a garden bloom could never be. People are the same, son—the most exquisite souls are those who survive where others cannot. They root themselves, along with their companions, wherever they are, and they thrive.” – Micheline Ryckman
Wrapping Up
Wildflowers, with their resilience and beauty, are an inspiring symbol of strength and growth. They can be found in the toughest and most unexpected places, reminding us to stay strong in our own paths and never give up on our dreams. No matter what life throws at us, we too can bloom like wildflowers. Let’s stay wild and free, tall and brave. Let’s grow between the cracks of brokenness and make everything beautiful.
Take a moment to appreciate the beauty of nature around you, no matter where you are right now – even in the most desolate places, there is something to appreciate. Take a deeper look and you will find beauty in the little things – like wildflowers. Let them be your source of strength and motivation as you stay strong and bloom freely!
Best wishes for a beautiful journey ahead!
