If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom,

maybe your soul has never been in bloom.

-Audra Foveo

I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness,

as that one which I have had always,
that I might be master at last of a small house and a large Garden.

~Abraham Cowley (The Garden, 1666)

People from a planet without flowers

would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

- Iris Murdoch (A Fairly Honourable Defeat)