Within the woods, Whose young and half transparent leaves scarce cast A shade, gray circles of anemones Danced on their stalks. - William Cullen Bryant, The Old Man's Counsel. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Flowers#Anemone
Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. - Henry Ward Beecher, Life Thoughts (1858), p. 234. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Flowers