Deep in their roots,
All flowers keep the light.
- Theodore Roethke
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns,
or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
- Abraham Lincoln
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
- Jean Giraudoux
The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfillment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography.
they are here first of all for delight.
- John Ruskin