Earth laughs in flowers.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"

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

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

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
~ Edward Abbey

I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Afternoon on a Hill"

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
~ Basho

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
~ Beverly Nichols

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
~ Walt Whitman