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

Each flower is a soul opening out to nature. – Gerald De Nerval

All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today. – Indian Proverb

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

The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. – Chinese proverb

Flowers are love’s truest language. – Park Benjamin

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one. – Edna St. Vincent Millay

I’ve always thought my flowers had souls. – Myrtle Reed

God loved the flowers and invented soil. Man loved the flowers and invented vases. – Jacques Deval

The poet’s darling. – William Wordsworth

The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation’s mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power. – Charles Dickens

Summer set lip to earth’s bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there. – Francis Thompson

A flower is relatively small… Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I’ll paint it big. – Georgia O’Keefe

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow. – Antonio Porchia

The Earth Laughs in Flowers. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms. – Ikkyu Sojun

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity. – John Ruskin

If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn. – Andrew Mason

Bloom where you are planted. – Mary Engelbreit

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. – Henry Beecher

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. – Tennessee Williams

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

Flowers really do intoxicate me. – Vita Sackville-West

Flowers whisper “Beauty!” to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall. – Dr. SunWolf

Flowers are those little colorful beacons of the sun from which we get sunshine when dark, somber skies blanket our thoughts. – Dodinsky

Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands. – Japanese Proverbs

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords. – John Muir

Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun. – Kahlil Gibran

Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers? – Maurice Maeterlinck

Flower arrangement: just two yellow daffodils, the first to bloom. – L.A. Davidson, The Shape of the Tree