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Andrew Mason
If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.
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Basho
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Beverly Nichols
To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
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Chinese Proverb
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
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Claude Monet
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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Edward Abbey
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
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Edward Payson Rod
Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but at the right time God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you.
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Emma Goldman
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
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Gertrude S. Wister
The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.
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Henry Ward Beecher, Star Papers: A Discourse of Flowers
Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.
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Ikkyu Sojun
Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
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Jean Giraudoux
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
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