'Tis my faith that every flower enjoys the air it breathes!
- William Wordsworth
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies for instance.
- John Ruskin
You love the roses - so do I.
I wish the sky would rain down roses, as they rain from off the shaken bush.
Why will it not?
Then all the valley would be pink and white and soft to tread on.
They would fall as light as feathers, smelling sweet, and it would be like sleeping and like waking, all at once!
- George Eliot
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
- Walt Whitman