flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Isn't it odd that flowers are the reproductive organs of the plants they grow on?
- Logan Pearsall Smith
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
- Iris Murdoch
Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia,
while around them cities have changed their masters and their names, collided and smashed, disappeared into nothingness,
their peaceful generations have crossed down the ages as fresh and smiling as on the days of battle.
- Edgar Quinet