I don't know whether nice people tend to grow roses
or growing roses makes people nice.
- Roland A Beowne
flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.
- John Ruskin
Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God,
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes -
The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.
- Elizabeth Barrett Brownbing
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