"For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying." Rainer Maria Rilke

"This is the grass that grows wherever the land is and the water is, This is the common air that bathes the globe." Walt Whitman

"In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two." Erich Fromm

"Life is a flower of which love is the honey." Victor Hugo

"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars." Walt Whitman

"When you have two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one and a lily with other other." Chinese Proverb

"A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and whom he will miss terribly." Pablo Neruda

"A beauty is not suddenly in a circle. It comes with rapture." Gertrude Stein

"There is magic in the web of it" Shakespeare Othello Act 3, Scene 4

"The sun shines not on us, but in us." John Muir

"[Flowers] are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world." Ralph Waldo Emerson