The Amen! of Nature is always a flower.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo
Forsythia is pure joy.
There is not an ounce, not a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia.
Pure, undiluted, untouched joy.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses
- Ovid