“The honey-bee’s great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower...

“The point of life is to find the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality.” ~ Lillian Smith

“The flowers are Nature’s jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty.” ~ George Croly

“Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved...

“It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has...

“The white flower of a blameless life.” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson What is this pretty little thing Mum?  

“Every rose that is sweet-scented within, That rose is telling of the secrets of the Universal.” ~ Rumi

“My final, considered judgment is that the hardy bulb [garlic] blesses and ennobles everything it touches – with the possible...

“With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold...

“Moss is inconceivably strong. Moss eats stone; scarcely anything, in return, eats moss. Moss dines upon boulders, slowly but devastatingly,...