“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more hopeful: they are sunshine, food, and medicine to the soul.”
–Luther Burbank
“Earth laughs in flowers.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The Amen! of Nature is always a flower.”
–Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“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
“A flower is a plant’s way of making love.”
–Barbara Kingsolver
“A flowerless room is a soulless room in my way of thinking; but even one solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.”
–Vita Sackville-West
“One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.”
–Henry David Thoreau