In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.
- Kozuko Okakura
Earth laughs in flowers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses
- Ovid
Silently a flower blooms,
In silence it falls away,
Yet here now,
at this moment,
at this place,
The world of the flower,
the whole of the world is blooming.
This is the talk of the flower,
the truth of the blossom.
The glory of eternal life is fully shining here.
- Zenkei Shibayama