"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain."

~ Henry David Thoreau

Campion

"Each flower is a soul blossoming out to nature."

~ Gerard De Nerval

Native Bee

"The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers."

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Viburnum Japanese Snowball: A Spring Showstopper by The Gifted Photographer

"Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock."

~ Henry Ward Beecher

"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

"Faith sees a beautiful blossom in a bulb, a lovely garden in a seed, and a giant oak in an acorn."

~ William Arthur Ward

"Keep your sense of proportion by regularly, preferably daily, visiting the natural world."

~ Catlin Matthews

Speckled Lilies

"I've learned that everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it."