Tonight, in the infinitesimal light of the stars, The trees and flowers have been strewing their cool odours

~ Sylvia Plath ~

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Daffodils, that come before the swallow dares, and take the winds of March with beauty

~ William Shakespeare ~

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One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve

~ Henry David Thoreau ~

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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 ~

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I must have flowers, always and always

~ Claude Monet ~

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And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter.  It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous

~ Rumi ~

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Nature's first green is gold.  Her hardest hue to hold.  Her early leaf's a flower;  But only so an hour

~ Robert Frost ~

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Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities in the world

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

.....that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit

~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~

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A garden is a grand teacher.  It teaches patience and careful watchfulness;  It teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust

~ Gertrude Jekyll ~

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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed

~ Walt Whitman ~

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I lingered yet a little longer:  the flowers smelt so sweet as the dew fell;  it was a pleasant evening, so serene, so warm...

~  Charlotte Bronte ~