I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow.

To me, flowers are happiness.

After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Because I am really interested in gardening, I do really interesting plants, not even always flowers. And because I have grown them, I really know them like friends. I paint everything from exotic orchids to rosehips growing wild in a hedge. They just have to speak to me.

I adore gardening and plan to take it up properly when I have a bit more time on my hands. Until then, I love pottering in garden centres. I'm totally low maintenance. I don't ask for fancy plants, just basic, long-lasting shrubs that look nice. But I am particular about flowers.

One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when the principle was explained to me: that flowers are the attempt by the plant to reproduce itself. So if you cut the heads off before the flower turns into seeds, the plant will continue to flower.

The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

Flowers are happy things.

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.

The orchid's association in Chinese culture with such virtues as elegance, good taste, friendship, and fertility goes all the way back to Confucius himself, who was said to have a particular attachment to the flowers.

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

To embrace the whole world in friendship is wisdom. This wisdom is not changeable like the flowers that bloom and fade.

As forces of hate in this country and worldwide try to pull Muslims and Christians apart, we are in desperate need of a unifying force that can bridge the widening gap of interfaith misunderstanding and mistrust. That force could be the message of love, peace, and forgiveness taught by Jesus and accepted by followers of both faiths.

When I heard that the bees were in trouble, the fact that they're disappearing and not coming back to the hive, which is a big issue, since a third of the food we eat comes from plants, I figured you couldn't tell the story of the bees without the story of the flowers and how they basically have evolved together for over 150 years.

I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

I'm in that comfortable niche where I'm not that famous and sometimes people do need to put a barrier between them and their followers. When you're real famous you need to do that but I'm not that famous so I don't need that kind of barrier.

Everybody think they're famous when they get 100,000 followers on Instagram and 5,000 on Twitter.