A flower of light pointlessly beautiful.

Nothing is worth doing pointlessly.

— Marcus Aurelius

A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of…

— Ben Jonson

The language of gardening fuels the senses: talk with your hands, observe with your ears and listen with your eyes.

— Costa Georgiadis

Sitting in your garden is a feat to be worked at with unflagging determination and single-mindedness. . . . I am deeply committed to…

— Mirabel Osler

“The arbutus is now open everywhere in the woods and groves. How pleasant it is to meet the same flowers year after year! If…

— Susan Fenimore Cooper

The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was! and what…

— Alice Morse Earle

Flowers are beautiful(but not as beautiful as you are).

— Anonymous

Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously,…

— Aldous Huxley

“Flowers that had bloomed brilliant from spring through autumn blackened under the killing frost.”

— Nora Roberts

Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths.

— Benjamin Franklin

I must hurry back to my house and my flowers in Monaco.

— Lillie Langtry

“A flower needs the rain to grow just as much as it needs the sunshine.”

— Teresa Mummert

Plant flowers in others' gardens and your life becomes a bouquet! Submitted by Lisa Letto, Coordinator, Nutrition Resource and Volunteer Centre, College of Pharmacy…

— Rabindranath Tagore

My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In…

— Daniel O'Connell

A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.

— Esther Meynell