"Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more."

Vincent van Gogh

March 30, 1853 - July 29, 1890

"[Butterflies are] not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures."

Elizabeth Goudge

April 24, 1900 - April 1, 1984

"The butterfly is a flying flower, the flower a tethered butterfly."

Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun

August 11, 1729 - August 31, 1807

"Little flower, but if I could understand, what you are, root and all in all, I should know what God and man is."

Alfred Tennyson

August 6, 1809 - October 6, 1892

"Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life. And everyone deserves a little sunshine."

Jeffrey Glassberg

"Memories are forget-me-nots gthered along life's way. Pressed close to the human heart into a perennial bouquet."

Clara Smith Reber

"Butterflies are self propelled flowers."

R. H. Heinlein

"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."

Nathaniel Hawthorne

July 4, 1804 - May 19, 1864

"When words escape, flowers speak."

Bruce W. Currie

"I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation -- the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence."

Aldous Huxley

July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963

"Heaven is under our feet, as well as over our heads."

Henry David Thoreau

July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862

"Just living is not enough ... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."

Hans Christian Anderson

April 2, 1805 - August 4, 1875

"Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift."

Albert Einstein

March 14, 1879 - April 18, 1955

"Flowers engage the heart's affections and unlock the deepest associations."

Carol Williams

born 1948

"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life."

Rachel Carson

May 27, 1907 - April 14, 1964