Flowers, the reproductive organs of flowering plants, are admired and used by humans to beautify their environment, commemorate special lifetime events, and as a source of food. ...more.

• “The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.” ~ Basho
• “Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also – if you love them enough.” ~ George Washington Carver
• “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 Maria Child
• “A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.” ~ Jean Cocteau
• “The earth laughs in flowers.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.” ~ Emma Goldman
• “Butterflies are self propelled flowers.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein
• “Life is a flower of which love is the honey.” ~ Victor Hugo
• “Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?” ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
• “A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.” ~ H. L. Mencken
• “I must have flowers, always, and always..” ~ Claude Monet
• “I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.” ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
• “Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries.” ~ John Muir
• “Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.” ~ Lewis Mumford
• “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
• “Beauty is but a flower, Which wrinkles will devour.” ~ Thomas Nashe, Summer's Last Will and Testament, 1600
• “Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.” ~ Georgia O'Keeffe
• “Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.” ~ John Ruskin
• “I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.” ~ William Shakespeare
• “In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
• “A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.” ~ Walt Whitman
• “Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.” ~ John Greenleaf Whittier
• “Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.” ~ The Koran