The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
- Jean Giraudoux
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
To pick a flower is so much more satisfying than just observing it, or photographing it...
So in later years, I have grown in my garden as many flowers as possible for children to pick.
- Anne Scott-James
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
- William Carlos Williams