Article & photos by: Andrea Wolff
All Rights Reserved - Copyright Andrea Wolff 2014

Andrea Wolff's strikingly photographs of waterlilies show them in a new light. This collection of astonishing photographs are shot in their natural environments. Andarea created a volume perfect for flower lovers, garndeners, photography fans, and anyone fascinated by the beauty, shape, texure, and form. Nymphaea is a beautiful and thought-provoking look at the wonders of this floating world.

Waterlily Quotes

These landscapes of water and reflections have become an obsession. It's quite beyond my powers at my age, and yet I want to succeed in expressing what I feel.
- Claude Monet

It took me time to understand my waterlilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
- Claude Monet

But it chanced the other day that I scented a white water- lily.... It is the emblem of purity.... What confirmation of our hopes is in the fragrance of this flower!
- Henry David Thoreau

Broad water-lilies lay tremulously,
And starry river-buds glimmered by,
And around them the soft stream did glide and dance
With a motion of sweet sound and radiance.
- Shelley, The Sensitive Plant

The water-lily starts and slides
Upon the level in little puffs of wind,
Tho’ anchor’d to the bottom.
-Tennyson, The Princess

Now folds the lily all her sweetness up,
And slips into the bosom of the lake;
So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip
Into my bosom, and be lost in me.
- Tennyson, The Princess

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying,
In sweetness, not in music, dying.
- Whittier, The Maids of Attitash

Rapaciously we gathered flowery spoils
From land and water; lilies of each hue,
Golden and white, that float upon the waves,
And court the wind.
- Wordsworth, The Excursion

What loved little islands, twice seen in their lakes,
Can the wild water-lily restore.
- Campbell, Field Flowers

The slender water-lily
Peeps dreamingly out of the lake;
The moon, oppress’d with love’s sorrow,
Looks tenderly down for her sake.
- Heine Book of Songs. New Spring

Those virgin lilies, all the night
Bathing their beauties in the lake,
That they may rise more fresh and bright,
When their beloved sun’s awake.
- Moore alla Rookh, Paradise and the Peri.