"There is something remarkably
more beautiful about flowers that you yourself have planted, and
divided, and cared for, than any other flowers. It reminds one
that the creation of beauty is a happy experience."
----Claudia Lady Bird Johnson
"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 their character, though
few can decypher even fragments of their meaning."----Lydia M. Child
"If your heart is a volcano,
how shall you expect flowers to bloom?"
----Kahlil Gibran
"I perhaps owe having become
a painter to flowers."
----Claude Monet
"There is probably nothing
that has such tranquilizing effect, and leads into such content,
as gardening."
----Charles Dudley Warner