We trample grass, and prize the flowers of May; yet the grass is green when the flower fades away.
~ R. Southwell

The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams.
~ Lewis Thompson

One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
~ Henry David Thoreau

He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.
~ Mark Twain

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

Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.
~ Oscar Wilde

Flowers are happy things.
~ Sir P(elham) G(renville) Wodehouse

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
~ William Wordsworth

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
~ William Wordsworth