Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody.
Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy".
- Robert G. Ingersoll
Roses red and violets blew, And all the sweetest flowers that in the forest grew.
- Edmund Spenser
flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
- Antonio Porchia
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
- Hal Borland