flower children
Peace and love devotees
Flower children were young people in the 1960s counterculture who rejected mainstream values in favor of peace, love, and communal living.
The term evokes their practice of wearing flowers and distributing them as symbols of nonviolence and harmony: The flower children gathered in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district.
Often used interchangeably with hippies, though flower children emphasizes the gentle, idealistic strain of the movement.
- hippiesCountercultural youth of the sixties
- psychedelicInducing altered perception
- good vibrationsSensed positive atmosphere
- freethinkerRejects doctrine for reason
- pacifismAntiwar moral stance
free spirit · dropping out · beatnik · counterculture · protest songs · Haight-Ashbury · San Francisco · tie-dye · free love · folk rock · bohemians · sixties · Woodstock · communal living · love beads · communalism · utopianism · generation gap
- counterculturefree love, hippie communes, Summer of Love, Woodstock, peace symbols
- Nonconformistsnonconformist, rebels, rebel, misfits, misfit
- baby boomersbaby boomers, post-war generation, me generation, retirees, retirement age
- youth artadolescence, playground, student life
flower childrenhawks
Keen-eyed birds of prey
war hawks · militarists · warmongers · jingoes · jingoists
flower childrensquares
Four-sided equal figures
straights · conformists · company men · suburbanites · traditionalists
flower, children, flowers, flowered, flowering, flowery, child, childish, childlike