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“I have always thought of the moths and butterflies as a bonus to the flowers, as though Nature were admiring her own work.”

— Roger Deakin

“(Carnations) The only flower that, when given to someone, is marginally superior to dead ones.”

— Marisha Pessl

“... every flower seems to burn by itself, softly, purely in the misty beds; and how she loved the grey-white moths spinning in and…

— Virginia Woolf

“Did you really think she was a tender flower you could trample upon, and damage her very soul? She is wildfire. And she is…

— Nikita Gill

“The biologist was coming down the hillside. In all her glory and monstrosity.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

“To him, she was like a flower that bloomed in the snow. Thriving under conditions in which nothing could grow. To some, she was…

— A.Y. Greyson

“His serenity was but the array of wild flowers niched in his ruin.”

— Henry James

“It was the small things she took pleasure in. The faint hum of a huge furry bumble bee busily flitting from one flower to…

— Kathryn Hughes

“They're here, though; not a creature failed, No blossom stayed away In gentle deference to me, The Queen of Calvary.”

— Emily Dickinson

“She brought fresh flowers in from the tumbling-down hill where her landlady threw handfuls of wildflower seeds each spring.”

— Eve Babitz

“Not for her the cruel, delicate luxury of choice, the indolent, cat-and-mouse pastimes of the hearth-rug. No Penelope she; she must hunt in the…

— Evelyn Waugh

“She was a strange mixture of tomboy and bookworm, which was a mercifully kind arrangement for both body and mind.”

— Edna Ferber