Flowers really do intoxicate me.
Vita Sackville-West

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

Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.
The Koran

Earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
Emma Goldman

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
Basho

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman

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

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

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

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
Heinrich Heine

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
Beverly Nichols

Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair…
Susan Polis Shutz

A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.
William Carlos Williams

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

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
Walt Whitman

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

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Claude Monet

The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.
Gertrude S. Wister

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