“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.”
~ William Shakespeare, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream“
“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
“Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair…”
― Susan Polis Schutz
“In joy or sadness flowers are our constant friends.”
― Kakuzō Okakura, The Book Of Tea
“I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay “Afternoon on a Hill”
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