Each flower is a soul opening out to nature.
- Gerard De Nerval
As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower.
- Edward Thomas
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
- Basho
Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his buttonhole.
- Mark Twain