John Lennon: “Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow”

• "Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow".

John Lennon

• "Love is like wildflowers; it’s often found in the most unlikely places".

• "L’amore è come i fiori di campo; si trova spesso nei posti più improbabili".

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it".

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "Molti occhi attraversano il prato, ma pochi ne vedono i fiori".

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities in the world".

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and a man cannot live without love".

• "Un fiore non può sbocciare senza il sole, e un uomo non può vivere senza amore".

Max Müller

• "Life is the flower for which love is the honey".

• "A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in—what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars".

Victor Hugo

• "Un giardino in cui passeggiare e un'immensità in cui sognare: cosa chiedere di più? Qualche fiore ai suoi piedi e sopra di lui le stelle".

Victor Hugo

• "Perfumes are the feelings of flowers".

Heinrich Heine

• "The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition".

Honore de Balzac

• "If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change".

• "Se potessimo vedere chiaramente il miracolo di un singolo fiore, tutta la nostra vita cambierebbe".

Buddha

• "All the flowers of the tomorrows are in the seeds of today".

• "Tutti i fiori del domani sono nei semi di oggi".

Proverbio indiano

• "Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul".

• "Non aspettare che qualcuno ti porti dei fiori. Pianta il tuo giardino e decora la tua anima".

Luther Burbank

• "A flower blossoms for its own joy.".

• "Un fiore sboccia per la propria gioia".

Oscar Wilde

• "A rose's rarest essence lives in the thorn".

• "L'essenza più rara di una rosa risiede nella spina".

Rumi

• "To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow".

• "Piantare un giardino significa credere nel domani".

Audrey Hepburn

• "After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world".

• "Dopo le donne, i fiori sono la cosa più bella che Dio ha dato al mondo".

Christian Dior

Flower photography is a diverse sub-genre of nature photography that runs the gamut from wide-angle sweeping wildflower landscapes to close-up floral garden portraits and impressionist abstract macro photos.

The most common time of year for witnessing and creating flower pictures is during the spring season but this is highly-variable dependent on seasonal weather patterns.