How
can one help shivering with delight when one's hot fingers close around
the stem of a live flower, cool from the shade and stiff with newborn
vigor!
Colette
Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
Ikkyu Sojun
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
Basho
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
Emma Goldman
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus