Henry T. Tuckerman

For the Infinite has sowed his name in the heavens in burning stars,
but on the earth he has sowed his name in tender flowers.

Jean Paul Richter

William Wordsworth

What a desolate place would be a world without flowers.  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 heaven?

Clara Balfour

Flowers and fruits are always fit presents,--flowers,
because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty
outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Earth laughs in flowers.

As I hold the flower in my hand and think of trying to describe it,
I realize how poor a creature I am,
how impotent are words in the presence of such perfection.

Celia Thaxter

Johann von Schiller

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not,
neither do they spin; And yet I say unto you that even Solomon
in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Jesus of Nazareth

William Wordsworth

The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.

Robert Leighton

Robert South

If one finds oneself with bread in both hands, that person
should exchange one loaf for some flowers of the narcissus,
because the loaf feeds the body, but the flowers feed the soul.

Mohammed

The amen of Nature is always a flower.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Kozuko Okakura

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 sunflower and the hollyhock.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Claude Monet

I perhaps owe becoming a painter to flowers.

The flowers are nature's jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty.

George Croly

Fortunate are the nations that can build wooden houses.  Because
wood breathes, transforms, deteriorates, like us.  It is also important
to have flowers and plants where we live, because they breathe, too.
Contemplating a flower for three seconds can be a captivating solitary
journey back to original geometry, which is always revitalizing.

Henry Skolimowski