- A garden is a friend you can visit anytime.
- A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. -H. L. Mencken (1880 — 1956) Earth laughs in flowers.-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
- Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. -Henry Ward Beecher (1813 — 1887).
- Flowers are our greatest silent friends. -Jim Brown.
- Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. -Chinese Proverb.
- Flowers have a time to re-blossom, but human beings are never young again. -Chinese Proverb.
- Each flower is a soul blossoming out to nature. -Gerard de Nerval.
- In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. -Kozuko Okakura.
- Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. -Arthur C. Coxe.
You can't love a crowd the same way you can love a person. And a crowd can't love you the way a single person can love you. Intimacy doesn't scale. Not really. Intimacy is a one-on-one phenomenon. -Hugh Macleod.