Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to.
But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough.
Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing,
inhibits and embarrasses them.
- Victoria Glendinning
The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places
in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.- Gertrude S. Wister
One of the most attractive things about
the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
- Henry David Thoreau
Thou cannot stir a flower
Without troubling a star.
- Francis Thompson