God loved the flowers and invented soil. Man loved the flowers and invented vases.
- Variation of a saying by Jacques Deval
With daffodils mad footnotes for the spring,
And asters purple asterisks for autumn
- Conrad Aiken
Isn't it odd that flowers are the reproductive organs of the plants they grow on?
- Logan Pearsall Smith
Deep in their root, all flowers keep the light.
- Theodore Roethke