
“Where flowers bloom so does hope.” —Lady Bird Johnson
When the world wearies, and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden. —Minnie Aumonier
What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not our stars the flowers of the heavens? —A. J. Balfour
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 sunflowers and the hollyhock. —Henry Ward Beecher
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. —Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858
Flowers are love’s truest language. —Park Benjamin
I don’t know whether nice people tend to grow roses or growing roses makes people nice. —Roland A. Beowne
Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character. —Lydia M. Child

“When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.” —Chinese proverb
Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them. —Chinese proverb
Look at the flowers beneath your feet. They neither card nor spin . . . they neither sow nor weave; yet King Solomon shone less brightly than they. —Jesus Christ
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. —Marcus Tullius Cicero
How can one help shivering with delight when one’s hot fingers close around the stem of a live flower, cool from the shade, and stiff with newborn vigor! —Colette

“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
Earth laughs in flowers. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hamatreya
Flowers . . . are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you’ve never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom. —Audra Foveo
May the stars carry your sadness away. May the flowers fill your heart with beauty. May hope forever wipe away your tears. And, above all, may silence make you strong. —Chief Dan George
Flowers bring to a liberal and gentlemanly mind, the remembrance of honesty, comeliness, and all kinds of virtue. —John Gerard
Be like the flower . . . turn your face to the sun. —Kahlil Gibran
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. —Jean Giraudoux

“I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.” —Emma Goldman
The Amen! of nature is always a flower. —Oliver Wendell Holmes
Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms. —Ikkyū
All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today. —Indian proverb
Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy. —Robert G. Ingersoll
Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower. —Shigenori Kameoka

“The gardens that make us happiest flourish because we have taken the time to make sure they feed our souls and fill a special place in our lives.” —Lindley Karstens
Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive. —John Keats
Flowers are not made by singing “Oh, how beautiful,” and sitting in the shade. —Rudyard Kipling
Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul. —The Koran
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. —Abraham Lincoln
Forsythia is pure joy. There is not an ounce, not a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia—pure, undiluted, untouched joy. —Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. —James Lowell
Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers? —Maurice Maeterlinck

“If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.” —Andrew Mason
Lowly, with a broken neck, the crocus lays her cheek to mire. —George Meredith
Flowers construct the most charming geometries: Circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which when viewed with the eye of a magnifying glass, seem a Lilliputian frieze of psychedelic silhouettes. —Duane Michals, The Vanishing Act
Flowers feed the soul. —Hadith Mohammed
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. —Claude Monet
When bright flowers bloom, parchment crumbles, my words fade, the pen has dropped. —Morpheus
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords. —John Muir
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 Fairly Honourable Defeat
Each flower is a soul opening out to nature. —Gerald de Nerval

“To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.” —Beverly Nichols
In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. —Kozuko Okakura
Look at the flowers—for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are. —Osho
Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses. —Ovid
He who wants a rose must respect the thorn. —Persian proverb
If, I can someday see Claude Monet’s garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much a garden of flowers as of colors and tones, less an old-fashioned flower garden than a colour garden, so to speak, one that achieves an effect not entirely nature’s, because it was planted so that only the flowers with matching colors will bloom at the same time, harmonized in an infinite stretch of blue or pink. —Marcel Proust
Today, as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while around them cities have changed their masters and their names, collided and smashed, disappeared into nothingness, their peaceful generations have crossed down the ages as fresh and smiling as on the days of battle. —Edgar Quinet, Philosophy of Human History, 1825
Don’t try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. See Spirit opening millions of flowers every day without forcing the buds. —Bhagwan Shree Rayneesh

“Look at us,” said the violets blooming at her feet, “All last winter we slept in the seeming death, but at the right time God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you.” —Edward Payson Rod
Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity. —John RuskinThe actual flower is the plant’s highest fulfilment . . . they are here first of all for delight. —John Ruskin
Flowers really do intoxicate me. —Vita Sackville-West
A flowerless room is a soul-less room, to my way of thinking; but even on solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it. —Vita Sackville-West
Who would have thought it possible that a tiny little flower could preoccupy a person so completely that there simply wasn’t room for any other thought. —Sophie Scholl
In the hope of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. —Albert Schweitzer
To pick a flower is so much more satisfying than just observing it, or photographing it . . . So in later years, I have grown in my garden as many flowers as possible for children to pick. —Anne Scott-James
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet. —William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Silently a flower blooms, in silence it falls away; yet here now, at this moment, at this place, the world of the flower, the whole of the world is blooming. This is the talk of the flower, the truth of the blossom: The glory of eternal life is fully shining here. —Zenkei Shibayama

“Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.” —Veronica A. Shoffstall
If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad. —John Lancaster Spalding, Aphorisms and Reflections
A rose is a rose is a rose. —Gertrude Stein
The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day in rhythmic measure. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flowers. —Rabindranath Tagore
He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world with a passion for flowers in his soul. —Celia Thaxter
One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve. —Henry David Thoreau
To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to attempt to fully understand. —Henry T. Tuckerman
In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. —Abram L. Urban
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy. —Lope de Vega

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.” —Alice Walker
None can have a healthy love for flowers unless he loves the wild ones. —Forbes Watson
Flowers do not force their way with great strife. Flowers open to perfection slowly in the sun. —White Eagle
In the dooryard fronting an old farmhouse near the white-wash’d palings, stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, with many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love, with every leaf a miracle—and from this bush in the dooryard, with delicate-color’d blossoms and heart-shaped leaves of rich green, a sprig with its flower I break. —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1865
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. —Walt Whitman
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. —Walt Whitman
A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring. —William Carlos Williams
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. —Tennessee Williams
The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size. —Gertrude S. Wister
‘Tis my faith that every flower enjoys the air it breathes! —William Wordsworth

“The poet’s darling.” —William Wordsworth, To the Daisy