Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
- Jean Giraudoux
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
- Emma Goldman
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
- Walt Whitman