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
Pluck not the wayside flower,
It is the traveler's dower.
- William Allingham
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
At dawn I asked the lotus,
'What is the meaning of life?'
Slowly she opened her hand
with nothing in it.
- Debra Woolard Bender