A Quote by Loren Eiseley

We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.

Loren Eiseley

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Cannot Disturbing Flower Pluck Star We Cannot

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Loren Eiseley
American - Scientist
September 3, 1907 - July 9, 1977

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

Loren Eiseley

When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.

Gautama Buddha

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Abraham Lincoln

Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower-but if I could understand What you are, root and all, all in all, I should know what God and man is.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star.

Francis Thompson

You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.

Arthur Eddington

Pluck not the wayside flower; It is the traveler's dower.

William Allingham

Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.

William Shakespeare

Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.

Aeschylus

The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was! and what place has the Violet? the Flower de Luce? I cannot decide, but this I know - it is some blue flower.

Alice Morse Earle

A flower is not a flower. It is made only of non-flower elements - sunshine, clouds, time, space, earth, minerals, gardeners, and so on. A true flower contains the whole universe. If we return any one of these non-flower elements to its source, there will be no flower.