The Amen! of Nature is always a flower.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
- Thomas Jefferson
Lone and erect, beneath light's primal flood,
A lily! and pure as any one of you.
- Mallarme
flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile, some have a sad expression, some are pensive and diffident, others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.
- Henry Ward Beecher