Flowers

• Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. — Henry Ward Beecher
• There are fairies at the bottom of our garden. — Rose Rlyeman
• The kiss of the sun for pardon,
  The song of the birds for mirth.
  One is nearer God's heart in a garden
  Than anywhere else on earth.
  —Dorothy Gurney
• But though I am an old man, I am but a young gardener. — Thomas Jefferson
• I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. — Claude Monet
• I think that I shall never see
  A poem lovely as a tree. — Joyce Kilmer
• I want death to find me planting cabbages. — Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
• Each flower is a soul opening out to nature. — Gérard de Nerval
• There's material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals. — John Ruskin
• When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. — Georgia O'Keeffe
• I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. — Georgia O'Keeffe
• If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated. — Japanese saying