Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
- John Keats
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
- Hal Borland
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
- Iris Murdoch
There's rosemary, that's for remembrance--pray you love, remember. And there is pansies, that's for thoughts.
- William Shakespeare