There are philosophies as varied as the flowers of the field,
and some of them weeds and a few of them poisonous weeds.
But they none of them create the psychological conditions
in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.
- G. K. Chesterton
The nature of This flower is to bloom.
- Alice Walker
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
- Claude Monet
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
- Emma Goldman