Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.

~Clare Ansberry, The Women of Troy Hill

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.

~Henry Ward Beecher

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

~Jean Giraudoux, The Enchanted, 1933

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.

~Herbert Rappaport

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is good to realize that if love

and peace can prevail on earth,

and if we can teach our children

to honor nature's gifts,

the joys and beauties of the

outdoors will be here forever."

Jimmy Carter

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it. 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

What if you slept?

And what if,

In your sleep

You dreamed?

And what if,

In your dream,

You went to Heaven

And there plucked

A strange and

Beautiful flower?

And what if,

When you awoke,

You had the flower

In your hand?

Ah, what then? - Samuel Taylor Coleridge