You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
- Hal Borland
If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
- John Lancaster Spalding
Lone and erect, beneath light's primal flood,
A lily! and pure as any one of you.
- Mallarme
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