I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows
Quite over canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with elgantine.
- William Shakespeare
The world is a rose, smell it and pass it to your friends.
- Persian Proverb
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
- Claude Monet
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
- Walt Whitman