There are philosophies as varied as the flowers of the field,
and some of them weeds and a few of them poisonous weeds.
But they none of them create the psychological conditions
in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.
- G. K. Chesterton
Thou cannot stir a flower
Without troubling a star.
- Francis Thompson
Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?
- Maurice Maeterlinck
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns.
I am thankful that thorns have roses.
- Alphonse Karr