Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
Interpretation
Flowers convey deeper emotions and meanings that often go beyond words.
In this quote, Lydia M. Child expresses the profound connection she feels with flowers, suggesting that they communicate messages and emotions that are difficult to articulate in language. She refers to flowers as the 'hieroglyphics of angels,' implying that they carry a divine significance and beauty that resonates with humanity, even if not everyone can fully understand their deeper implications.
In practice
During a memorial service, one might quote this to emphasize the beauty of life and nature.
Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike.
Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.
We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
Eating is an environmental act.
The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.
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