These lush quotes will inspire you. Lush has a lot of full and healthy growth or is very rich and provides great sensory pleasure.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging lush quotes, lush sayings, and lush proverbs.
Inspirational Lush Quotes
- “The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more of is people to appreciate and enjoy it.” ~ Michael Josephson
- “Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush.” ~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
- “Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the hands, the purple of ripe grapes sunlit and warm as flesh.” ~ Marge Piercy
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“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.” ~ Helen Keller
- “I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova. It’s very warm-sounding to me – lush and simple. I like that.” ~ Joey Santiago
- “I like to touch things. In my house, I have a lot of velvet drapes and thick, lush couches.” ~ Tom Sizemore
- “Nothing is so beautiful as spring – when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.” ~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
- “Then I place the blade next to the skin on my palm. A tingle arced across my scalp. The flood tipped up at me and my body spiraled away. Then I was on the ceiling looking down, waiting to see what would happen next. What happened next was thet a perfect, straight line of blood bloomed from under the blade. The line grow into a long, Fat bubble, A lush crimson bubble that got bigger and bigger. I watch from above, waiting to see how big it would get before it burst. when it did, I felt awesome. Satisfied, finally. Then exhausted.” ~ Patricia McCormick
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“How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Everybody wants to be on the mountaintop, but if you’ll remember, mountaintops are rocky and cold. There is no growth on the top of a mountain. Sure, the view is great, but what’s a view for? A view just gives us a glimpse of our next destination-our next target. But to hit that target, we must come off the mountain, go through the valley, and begin to climb the next slope. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life’s next peak.” ~ Andy Andrews
- “Your seed has been covered with so many layers of culture, etiquette, education, religion, country, that you have completely forgotten that you are here to grow, that you have become a lush green bush full of flowers, fragrance, dancing in the wind and in the rain and in the sun.” ~ Rajneesh , Green lush quotes
- “I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.” ~ Etta James
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“La’ , tout n’est qu’ordre et beaute , Luxe, calme et volupte . There where all is order and beauty. Lush, calm and voluptuous.” ~ Charles Baudelaire
- “The little black dress must be luxurious, rich, sensual, diaphanous, exotic, severe, lush, demure, demanding, frivolous, amusing, and it must linger in memory, but above all, it must be simple and little and black.” ~ Carolina Herrera
- “If I didn’t have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I’m a big swearer. I’m trying to rein it in but I do think it’s a nice seasoning of language.” ~ Olivia Colman
- “We got the idea of nature almost encroaching. It’s incredibly lush, incredibly green, we really popped the colors, lots of deep reds and the greens. It really has a sense of color which is unsettling actually and people are like, “It’s so colorful.”” ~ Miles Millar
- “Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath? Do you also hurry, half-dressed and barefoot, into the garden, and softly, and exclaiming of their dearness, fill your arms with the white and pink flowers, with their honeyed heaviness, their lush trembling, their eagerness to be wild and perfect for a moment, before they are nothing, forever?” ~ Mary Oliver
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“In terms of how [Allied] looks, it’s fantastic and much better than I had hoped because it’s so lush and so beautifully executed.” ~ Steven Knight
- “When I compare life to a dream I do not mean to denigrate it as some sort of meaningless fantasy. Life is too wonderful to be called an “illusion” unless we whisper the word in amazement, as we might when witnessing the most astonishing magic trick. What could be more magnificent than this glorious universe, in all its multifarious extravagance? Its awesome vastness and delicate detail. Its impersonal precision and intimate intensity. Its harsh necessities and lush sensuality. This dream of life is truly marvelous.” ~ Timothy Freke , Lush quotes life
- “Everybody wants to reach the top of the mountain, but there is no growth at the peak. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life’s next peak.” ~ Andy Andrews
- “We need to close every church in the land for one Sunday and cease listening to a man so we can hear the groan of the Spirit which we in our lush pews have forgotten.” ~ Leonard Ravenhill
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“The mere pronunciation of the word luxurious feels lush, luxuriant.” ~ Lady G
- “This and the small sample size inevitably leads to stereotypes – sweeping family sagas from India, ‘lush’ colonial romances from South-East Asia. Mother and daughter reconciling generational differences through preparing a ‘traditional’ meal together. Geishas. And even if something more exciting does manage to sneak through, it gets the same insultingly clichéd cover slapped on it anyway, so no one will ever know.” ~ Deborah Smith
- “I usually go to Lush for hair products. I had no idea that this existed, but they have a shampoo rock, and it looks like a bar of soap, and I was tripping out when they told me it was a shampoo, so that’s pretty sweet.” ~ Christian Serratos
- “When we came to America, the movies here needed a “new wave.” European films looked totally different than American movies, which were these lush, glossy pictures with this elaborate production design.” ~ Vilmos Zsigmond
- “There was a time when hip-hop was its own musical principle, aside from sampling. Like the entire Wild Style break is instrumental. Kurtis Blow’s earliest stuff was studio musicians playing. Whodini had a real clear sound, things like “five minutes of funk,” stuff that you could write really beautiful, lush string and horn arrangements around, stuff that was just music.” ~ Mos Def
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“Looking at paintings was a huge part of finding my way into the lush world of the 18th century.” ~ Rebecca Miller
- “It’s one thing having a great song, but I think for me if you take it to the next level… say you had a guitar and a vocal, and the song was amazing but the vocalist wasn’t that great and it just was a guitar and vocal acoustic track, switching that to something like an amazing voice singing the exact same song with the instrumentation being really nice and lush or unique in some way and interesting and diverse… I think it’s all about the instrumentation and textures in the sound.” ~ Flume
- “There are lots of stories in pop music, lots of lush orchestrations, lots of attention to detail. You just have to know where to find them. The best stuff is never overt.” ~ Stephanie D’Abruzzo
- “There is joy in feeling the bristles of a quality brush, seeing the richness and lush color of truly good pigment flowing onto the paper or canvas. The cheap stuff just makes for harder work and lesser results.” ~ Gene Black
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“America is old tobacco: gold and green. It’s lush and literally feels like wealth, like optimism, turn of the century America where everything was blooming.” ~ Guillermo del Toro
- “Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means of drugs, beautiful women, lush gardens, and religious promises. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham
- “It’s about time you admitted that you are a miraculous work of art. You came into this world as a radiant bundle of exuberant riddles. You slipped into this dimension as a shimmering burst of spiral hallelujahs. You blasted into this realm as a lush explosion of ecstatic gratitude. And it is your birthright to fulfill those promises.” ~ Rob Brezsny
- “An idea fell like a seed and over the next weeks it went on growing like a fig vine lush and conquering twining round her old beliefs and covering them in new growth until they were as invisible as a tiger in a thicket and just as deadly.” ~ Laini Taylor
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“Interesting shade #23 Lush Golden Blonde highlights. Heyyyyyy…. The woman in the awful suit was me! The woman in the cheap shoes was me!” ~ MaryJanice Davidson
- “I’ve never really thought about it before, but it’s a miracle how many kinds of light there are in the world, how many skies: the pale brightness of spring, when it feels like the hole world’s blushing; the lush, bright boldness of a July noon; purple storm skies and a green queasiness just before lightning strikes and crazy multicolored sunsets that look like someone’s acid trip.” ~ Lauren Oliver
- “If I’d known you were such a lush, I’d have given you the cheap stuff. Going to go out with a bang, are you?” ~ Jeaniene Frost
- “The cheesecake was smooth and lush, with the personality of a warm and well-to-do uncle who knows a hundred dirty jokes and will die of sexual exertions in the arms of his mistress.” ~ Don DeLillo
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“I’ll live a lush life in some small dive.” ~ Billy Strayhorn
- “I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‘He is not a lush.’ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‘Look!'” ~ Christopher Hitchens
- “These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They’re beautiful. Magnatones have actual tremolo, which I recently learned about guitar amps. Often what guitar amps call vibrato is really just a volume Up and Down. But Magnatone has a true vibrato, which is pitch bending. And so, it’s just a lush sound.” ~ Ani DiFranco
- “Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and obtain a lush lifestyle makes a certain (albeit seedy) sense.” ~ Julie Burchill
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“George Martin, he’s very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.” ~ Paul McCartney
- “Did you dream of me?” he asked. “Yes,” she admitted grudgingly. She had. She’d dreamed of his hands caressing her, of his mouth devouring her. His lush lips inched into a surprised but pleased smile. “You were naked,” she told him. His grin spread; his eyes gleamed with satisfaction. “And tied up…” He arched his eye brows in smug expectation. “I did not know the idea of bondage would please you.” “Oh, I love the idea of typing you up.” She paused dramatically. “Just like in my dream, you’ll be secured to an ant-hill and the little things will eat you alive.” ~ Gena Showalter
- “For me, Savannah’s resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of the world at large. It grew inward, too, and in such a way that its people flourished like hothouse plants tended by an indulgent gardener. The ordinary became extraordinary. Eccentrics thrived. Every nuance and quirk of personality achieved greater brilliance in that lush enclosure than would have been possible anywhere else in the world.” ~ John Berendt
- “Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing; The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling. What is all this juice and all this joy? A strain of the earth’s sweet being in the beginning In Eden garden.-Have, get, before it cloy.” ~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
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“If I’m a lush at anything, it’s food and drink. I’m not materialistic in any way, but I value food.” ~ Hugh Jackman
- “Perhaps I shall not write my account of the Paleolithic at all, but make a film of it. A silent film at that, in which I shall show you first the great slumbering rocks of the Cambrian period, and move from those to the mountains of Wales…from Ordovician to Devonian, on the lush glowing Cotswolds, on to the white cliffs of Dover… An impressionistic, dreaming film, in which the folded rocks arise and flower and grow and become Salisbury Cathedral and York Minster.” ~ Penelope Lively
- “Ann Sothern’s dressing room…was unbelievably lush and beautiful. More elegant than many homes I’ve been in.” ~ Hedda Hopper
- “When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it’s because the poems are simultaneously lush and ripe and kind of lazy, yet throbbing with lifelike summer itself.” ~ Tom Robbins
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“I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.” ~ Jeff VanderMeer
- “Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical detail all set against a backdrop of looming danger. Anne Fortier casts a new light on one of history’s greatest stories of passion. I was swept away.” ~ Sara Gruen
- “ONE BLOOD is a richly detailed, intricately woven tale rendered in lush, evocative prose. This memorable debut heralds Qwantu Amaru as a talent well worth watching.” ~ Brandon Massey
- “Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty. The sentences become longer and longer as they fill up with stately elms and graceful boughs and frisky kittens and sleepy lagoons.” ~ William Zinsser
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“King Of The Dot is huge; battle rap is huge right now. My first battle that I went to was King Of The Dot – shout out to Lush One.” ~ Ab-Soul
- “Thanh Hoa itself is a rich agricultural province. Rice fields, a pattern of many shades of green, stretch far into the distance along the road, which also winds through foothills and the fringes of heavy jungle where tigers are said to roam. The vegetation, wild or cultivated, is lush.” ~ Noam Chomsky
- “We still listen to the original lush arrangements with the orchestras.” ~ Jane Lynch
- “My bedroom is my sanctuary. It’s the only place in the house that has a beautiful lush shag rug, which is my favorite.” ~ Evangeline Lilly
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“I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.” ~ Carla Bley
- “Many an American jazz musician has been beguiled by the lush melodies and sumptuous rhythms of Brazilian music, but Peter Sprague has taken the romance a good deal further than most.” ~ Andrew S. Gilbert
- “There is no substitute for a reallocation when you’re trying to shoot the jungle. You can’t just go anywhere. You’ve got to go where it’s lush and green and there really is those mountain ranges, the trees, and the ocean.” ~ Rachelle Lefevre
- “I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles–tabernacle and pharisee and parable, trespass and Babylon and covenant.” ~ Penelope Lively
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“A little Isadora Duncan and a little Butoh this was choreography and performing that was simultaneously both lush and spare.” ~ Jennifer Dunning
- “The inspiration for my work comes from areas spanning the stark regions of Newfoundland to the lush and fertile valleys of the South. The landscapes offer me form; the people I’ve met in these places give them color.” ~ Peter Sculthorpe
- “I think New Orleans is such a beautiful city. It looks like a fairytale when you walk through the French Quarter or the Garden District. There is such a lush sense of color, style, architecture – and the people themselves.” ~ Anika
