Why flowers?

Here are some quotes from famous people:

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 Hopkins

The world is a rose; smell it and pass it to your friends.- Persian Proverb

Flowers are love's truest language. - Park Benjamin

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits. - William Carlos Williams

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, A Fairly Honourable Defeat

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat. ~Beverly Nichols

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