Everything's Comin' Up Bootsie!

       "Bloomin' Bootsie's!"

Little flower, but if I could understand, what you are, root and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
                                        -  Tennyson

In friendship's fragrant garden,
There are flowers of every hue.
Each with its own fair beauty
And its gift of joy for you.
-  Friendship's Garden

None can have a healthy love for flowers
unless he loves the wild ones.
-   Forbes Watson

Who would have thought it possible that a tiny little flower
could preoccupy a person so completely that there simply
wasn't room for any other thought....
-   Sophie Scholl

In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.
-  Kozuko Okakura

 

Where flowers bloom so does hope.
-  Lady Bird Johnson, Public Roads: Where Flowers Bloom

 

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

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

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

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

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

 

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.  ~Hal Borland, Sundial of the Seasons, 1964

Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.
- Kahlil Gibran

In this world
we walk on the roof of hell
      gazing at flowers.
-   Issa

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful;
they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
-   Luther Burbank

What a desolate place would be a world without flowers.   It would be a face
without a smile; a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars
of the earth?  Are not our stars the flowers of heaven?
-  Clara L. Balfour

The love of flowers is really the best teacher
of how to grow and understand them.
-  Max Schling

When at last I took the time to look into the heart
of a flower, it opened up a whole new world; a world
where every country walk would be an adventure,
where every garden would become an enchanted one.
- Princess Grace of Monaco

and lastly,

Just living is not enough ...
One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
-  Hans Christian Anderson