101 Beautiful Wildflower Quotes That Bloom

Moumita Dutta
Dec 12, 2023 By Moumita Dutta
Originally Published on Jan 12, 2021
Edited by Jacob Fitzbright
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Wildflower usually refers to a variety of flowers that grow in the wild.

Wildflowers are usually unseeded flowers and grow on their own. They are found in a wide range of colors.

Black Eyed Susan is referred to as the most common wildflower. Weeds are often confused with wildflowers, which is inaccurate. Wildflowers usually grow in their natural habitat, while weeds simply grows anywhere. Both men and women alike love wildflowers!

If you like these flower quotes, then do check out wilderness quotes and mother nature quotes.

Best Wildflower Quotes

Here you will find wildflower sayings, famous quotes about wildflowers, flower quotes, a beautiful wildflower quote, and a flower quote.

1." To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower."

- William Blake.

2. "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.

3. "What a lonely place it would be to have a world without a wildflower!"

- Roland R Kemler.

4. "I dream of a quiet man

who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows

where the rarest wildflowers

are blooming…"

- Wendell Berry.

5. "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.

6. "Love is like wildflowers;

It's often found in the most unlikely places."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson.

7. "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 grass."

- John Steinbeck.

8. "They are wildflowers. They would not want a name."

- Silas House.

9. "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.

10. "Wildflowers aren't meant to be cut & tamed. They're meant to be loved & admired."

-Anthony T. Hincks.

11. "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.

12. "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.

13. "One person's weed is another person's wildflower."

- Susan Wittig Albert.

14. "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.

15. "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.

16. "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.

17. "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.

18. "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.

19. "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.

20. "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.

21. "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.

22. "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

23. "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.

24. "May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day."

- Native American Proverb.

25. "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.

26. "It is no use trying to improve on children's names for wildflowers."

- Mary Hunter Austin.

27. "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.

28. "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."

-Bob Dylan, 'Let Me Die In My Footsteps'.

29. "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 grass, puddles, clinging vines, mushrooms, and little wildflowers."

- Roberto Bolano.

30. "Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are."

- Rumi.

31. "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.

32. "Wildflower corners are easy to maintain, but once gone, they are hard to rebuild."

- Aldo Leopold.

33. "Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!"

-Lady Bird Johnson.

34. "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.

35. "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.

36. "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.

37. "How do you press a wildflower into the pages of an e-book?"

- Lewis Buzbee.

38. "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.

39. "It will create an excitement that will sweep the country like wildflowers."

- Samuel Goldwyn.

40. "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.

41. "No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere."

- Sheryl Crow.

42. "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.

Quotes From Books, Songs And Movies Of Wildflowers

In this category are the quotes about wildflowers from books, movies, and songs. You will also find she's a wildflower quotes, flower quotes, a beautiful wildflower quote, and a flower quote.

43. "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'.

44. "You can be a warrior and be full of grace and class."

-Drew Barrymore, 'Wildflower'.

45. "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'.

46. "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'.

47. "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.

48. "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'.

49. "So I ran fearing not where I'd go

When a flower grows wild

It can always survive

Wildflowers don't care where they grow."

- Dolly Parton, 'Wildflowers'.

50. "Be Authentic. Be yourself. And most important of all... make it personal."

- Drew Barrymore, 'Wildflower'.

51. "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'.

52. "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.

53. "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'.

54. "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'.

55. "My name is Chloe I'm 20 I still have a hard time letting people get close to me but each day…"

-Chloe, 'Wildflower'.

56. "I don't care, if everybody in the whole world laughs…"

- Alice Guthrie, 'Wildflower'.

57. "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'.

58. "The hills were alive with wildflowers and I

Was as wild, even wilder than they

For at least I could run…"

- Dolly Parton, 'Wildflowers'.

Happiness Quotes On Flowers

Enlisted below are some of the finest quotes about happiness from flowers, wildflowers, a beautiful wildflower quote, and a flower quote.

59. "You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming."

- Pablo Neruda.

60. "Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree."

– Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

61. "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.

62. "Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts."

- Sigmund Freud.

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

– John Lennon.

64. "Flowers whisper 'Beauty!' to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall."

– Dr. SunWolf.

65. "Don't let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden."

-Steve Maraboli.

66. "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.

67. "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.

67. "Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers."

- Lady Bird Johnson.

69. "The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions."

- Chanakya.

70. "The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days."

– Robert Leighton.

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

– Max Muller.

72. "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.

73. "Flowers didn't ask to be flowers and I didn't ask to be me."

-Kurt Vonnegut.

74. "Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature."

– Gerard De Nerval.

75. "She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes."

-Arundhati Roy.

76. "Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms."

- Ikkyu Sojun.

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson.

78. "Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands."

-Japanese Proverb.

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

– Gautama Buddha.

80. "The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure."

– D. H. Lawrence.

81. "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.

Color Quotes On Flowers

Flowers are found in different variants of colors and so are wildflowers. Enjoy the best quotes about colors in this category.

82. "Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways."

- Oscar Wilde.

83. "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.

84. "Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it."  

- Pierre Bonnard.

85. "Colour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings."  

- Marion Milner.

86. "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.

87. "In life, you either choose to sing a rainbow, or you don’t. Keep singing."

― Kathleen Long.

88. "Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colors; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow."

― Kahlil Gibran.

89. "The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most."

- John Ruskin.

90. "The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas."

– Edvard Munch.

91. "In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light."

- Hans Hofmann.

92. "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.

93. "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.

94. "Be uniquely you. Stand out. Shine. Be colorful. The world needs your prismatic soul!"

- Amy Leigh Mercree.

95. "The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."

- Marcus Aurelius.

96. "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.

97. "And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow."

― Gilbert K. Chesterton.

98. "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.

99. "Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature."  

- Walter J. Phillips.

100. "Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this?"

– Pablo Picasso.

101. "Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends."

― Aberjhani.

Here at Kidadl, we have carefully created lots of interesting family-friendly quotes for everyone to enjoy! If you liked our suggestions for wildflower quotes then why not take a look at watercolor quotes, or sunflower quotes.

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Written by Moumita Dutta

Bachelor of Arts specializing in Journalism and Mass Communication, Postgraduate Diploma in Sports Management

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Moumita DuttaBachelor of Arts specializing in Journalism and Mass Communication, Postgraduate Diploma in Sports Management

A content writer and editor with a passion for sports, Moumita has honed her skills in producing compelling match reports and stories about sporting heroes. She holds a degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from the Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management, Calcutta University, alongside a postgraduate diploma in Sports Management.

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