Silence, Peace, Love and Beauty is the language of flowers...

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

- Emma Goldman

I do not think I have ever seen anything more beautiful than the bluebell I have been looking at. I know the beauty of our Lord by it.

- Gerald Manley Hopkin

Each flower is a soul opening out to nature.

- Gerald De Nerval

The world is a rose; smell it and pass it to your friends

. - Persian Proverb

The Earth Laughs in Flowers

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

- William Carlos Williams

Who can estimate the elevating and refining influences and moral value of flowers with all their graceful forms,

bewitching shades and combinations of colors and exquisitely varied perfumes?

These silent influences are unconsciously felt even by those who do not appreciate them consciously and thus with better and still better fruits,

nuts, grains, vegetables and flowers, will the earth be transformed,

man's thought refined, and turned from the base destructive forces into nobler production.

One which will lift him to high planes of action toward the happy day when the Creator of all this beautiful work is more acknowledged and loved,

and where man shall offer his brother man, not bullets and bayonets, but richer grains, better fruit and fairer flowers from the bounty of this earth.

- Father George Schoener (1864 -1941), The Importance and Fundamental Principles of Plant Breeding

Since Iris is the Greek goddess for the Messenger of Love, her sacred flower is considered the symbol of communication and messages.

Greek men would often plant an iris on the graves of their beloved women as a tribute to the goddess Iris, whose duty it was to take the souls of women to the Elysian fields

. - Hana No Monogatari: The Stories of Flowers