“Can you look at a flower without thinking?”— Jiddu Krishnamurti Related Quotes “Royal summoned mourners. They came from the village, from the neighboring hills and, wailing like dogs at midnight, laid siege to the house. Old women beat their heads against the walls, moaning men prostrated themselves: it was the art of sorrow, and those who best mimicked grief were much admired. After the funeral everyone went away, satisfied that they’d done a good job.”— Truman Capote “My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric kind of vase for floral decoration.”— H.G. Wells “Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.”— Luther Burbank