"If Spring came but once a century instead of once a year or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and explanation there would be in all of our hearts to behold the miraculous change."    ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Flowers are like human beings. . . they thrive on a little kindness."  ~ Fred Streeter

"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that the worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."   ~Johann Woldgang von Goethe

"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but the wide world's joy."    ~Henry Ward Beecher