Earth laughs in flowers .

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

Hamatreya”"

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

LifeThoughts ,

1858

I will be the gladdest thingUnder the sun! I will touch a hundred flowersAnd not pick one. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Afternoon on

a Hill”

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.

 Heinrich Heine

The Hartz Journey

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

Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature, with which she indicates how much she loves us.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

-Emma Goldman

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do. - Helen Keller

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

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

"Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He

attracts and follows ”.

Jean Paul Richter (German Novelist and humorist, 1763-1825)

What a pity flowers can utter no sound! A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle--oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!

- Henry Ward Beecher

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, Star Papers: A Discourse of Flowers

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

- Archbishop Robert Leighton

These stars of earth, these golden flowers.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow