The nature of This flower is to bloom.
- Alice Walker
It will never rain roses.
When we want to have more roses,
we must plant more roses.
- George Eliot
I do not think I have ever seen anything more beautiful than the bluebell I have been looking at.
I know the beauty of our Lord by it.
- Gerald Manley Hopkins
Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
- John Keats