Quotes about flowers

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. -Emma Goldman

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. -Basho

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat. -Beverly Nichols

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. -Walt Whitman

Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms. -Ikkyu Sojun

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers. -Heinrich Heine

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity. -John Ruskin

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. -Chinese Proverb

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. -Walt Whitman

Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul. -The Koran

If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn. -Andrew Mason

Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers? -Maurice Maeterlinck

A flower's appeal is in its contradictions - so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect. -Adabella Radici

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair -Susan Polis Shutz

Each flower is a soul blossoming out to nature - Gerard de Nerval

And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies -Marie-Antoinette

Where flowers bloom so does hope -Lady Bird Johnson

The world is a rose; smell it and pass it to your friends -Persian Proverb