986 – “If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.”

-Osho [Attributed]

897 – First Stanza of William Blake’s “Auguries of Innocence.”

To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.

-William Blake

558 – “Where the telescope ends the microscope begins. Which of the two possess the larger field of vision? Choose. A bit of mold is a Pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an anthill of stars.”

–Victor Hugo