Interesting quotes & facts

  • 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 the character, though few can decypher even fragments of their meanin.
    - Lydia M. Child (1802-1880)
  • Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
    - Heinrich Heine, The Hartz Journey
  • If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom.
    - Audra Foveo
  • I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
    - Emma Goldman
  • It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
    - William Carlos Williams
  • We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
    - Abraham Lincoln
  • If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.
    - by Andrew Mason
  • Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?
    - by Maurice Maeterlinck
  • The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.
    - by Gertrude S. Wister
  • A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.
    - by The Collected Later Poems of William Carlos Williams
  • Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
    - by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844