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, A Fairly Honourable Defeat

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

Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning. – Lydia M. Child

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. – Gerard de Nerval