"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." Proverbs 16:24

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
- William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

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All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of yesterday

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I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
- Emma Goldman (1869-1940)

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The Earth laughs in flowers
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 -1882)

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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

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In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, with many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love, With every leaf a miracle - and from this bush in the dooryard, With delicate-color'd blossoms and heart-shaped leaves of rich green, A sprig with its flower I break.
- Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

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When your reaching for the moon, don't forget to look at the flowers that bloom at your feet.

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Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the root, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit. - John Ruskin (1819-1900)

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The seed is hope; the flower is joy

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Tickle it with a hoe and it will laugh into a harvest. - English Proverb

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Those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers

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If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere
- Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)

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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
- Claude Monet (1840-1926)

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And then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with daffodils. - William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

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Kiss of the sun for pardon. Song of the birds for mirth. You're closer to God's heart in a garden Than any place else on earth. - Dorothy Frances Gurney (1858-1932)

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What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. - Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900)

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Cultivate the garden within.

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There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again. - Elizabeth Lawrence (1904-1985)

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It is by believing in roses that one brings them to bloom. - French Proverb