flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities,
which when viewed with the eye of a magnifying glass seem a Lilliputian frieze of psychedelic silhouettes.
- Duane Michals
Lowly, with a broken neck,
The crocus lays her cheek to mire.
- George Meredith
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
- Lope de Vega
A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
- Walt Whitman