Earth laughs in flowers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
- William Shakespeare
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- Anais Nin
flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals.
Some seem to smile, some have a sad expression, some are pensive and difident, others again are plain, honest and upright.
- Henry Ward Beecher