{"quotes":[{"text":"The early dew-falls that did a pristine coating,over the woods with its finest transparency,glazed as like its wet white-glassy earrings that hung on the ears of wild flowers—unlatched my fancy.","author":"Nithin Purple","tags":["atmosphere","dew","earrings","fanciful","fancy","forest","love","lovely","natural-laws","nature","nithin-purple","nithinpurple","poesy","poetic-justice","poetry","pristine","quotes","of-life","romance","thoughts","transparency","venus","venusandcrepuscle","wet","wildflowers","wisdom","woods","words"],"id":30835,"author_id":"Nithin+Purple"},{"text":"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.","author":"Anthony T.Hnicks","tags":["flowers","philosophy","see","us","wild","wildflowers"],"id":83917,"author_id":"Anthony+T.Hnicks"},{"text":"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.","author":"Melody Lee","tags":["free","moon-gypsy-book","ocean","poetry","sky","soul","wild","wildflowers"],"id":100103,"author_id":"Melody+Lee"},{"text":"I think I like wildflowers best,' I explain. '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.' (Richelle).","author":"Rebecca Donovan","tags":["flowers","nature","rebecca-donovan","richelle","what-if","wildflowers"],"id":134607,"author_id":"Rebecca+Donovan"},{"text":"May 27, 1941Sunday we encountered specimens of the rarely appearing yellow lady's slipper. This orchis is fragilely beautiful. One tends to think of it almost as a phenomenon, without any roots or place in the natural world. And yet it, too, has had its tough old ancestors which have eluded fires and drought and freezes to pass on in this lovely form the boon of existence. If a plant so delicately lovely can at the same time be so toughly persistent and resistant to all natural enemies, can we doubt that hopes for a better an more rational world may not also withstand all assaults, be bequeathed from generation to generation, and come ultimately to flower?President Roosevelt says he has not lost faith in democracy; nor have I lost faith in the transcendent potentialities of LIFE itself. One has but to look about him to become almost wildly imbued with something of the massive, surging vitality of the earth.","author":"Harvey Broome","tags":["hope","nature","orchids","transcendent","wildflowers"],"id":165105,"author_id":"Harvey+Broome"},{"text":"Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.","author":"Shannon Mullen","tags":["arctic","flower","hope","mental-illness","resilience","wildflowers"],"id":198276,"author_id":"Shannon+Mullen"},{"text":"The sky is a meadow of wildstar flowers.","author":"Ann Zwinger","tags":["constellations","cosmology","grand-canyon","nature","nature-writing","sky","stars","wildflowers"],"id":215049,"author_id":"Ann+Zwinger"},{"text":"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 wild flowers that one gardener calls weeds, and another considers beautiful ground cover.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["all-different","ancient-chinese-wisdom","beliefs","commandments","complicated-people","differences","diversity","flowers","fortune-cookie-advice","funny","gardening","ground-cover","guidelines","humor","life","messed-up-people","observations","observations-on-life","opinions","perspectives","religion","rules","speculations","truth","values","variations","viewing-things-different","way-of-life","wildflowers"],"id":217575,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"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.","author":"Chelsea Sedoti","tags":["ant","daisy","field","flowers","life","place-in-the-world","small","wildflowers"],"id":249993,"author_id":"Chelsea+Sedoti"},{"text":"If I had to describe the scent of Michigan in spring and summer, it wouldn't be aparticular smell – blooming wildflowers or boat exhaust off the lake – it would be a color: Green.","author":"Viola Shipman","tags":["lake","michigan","michigan ","springtime","summer","wildflowers"],"id":309637,"author_id":"Viola+Shipman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}