ON FLOWERS .

I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.
~Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Afternoon on a Hill"
Why do people give each other flowers?  To celebrate various important occasions, they're killing living creatures?  ~The Washington Post
God loved the flowers and invented soil.  Man loved the flowers and invented vases. (God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.) - Jacques Deval
I don't know whether nice people tend to grow roses
or growing roses makes people nice. -   Roland A Beowne
  Silently a flower blooms,
In silence it falls away;
Yet here now, at this moment, at this place,
The world of the flower, the whole of
the world is blooming.
This is the talk of the flower, the truth
of the blossom:
The glory of eternal life is fully shining here.
- Zenkei Shibayama.

If you want to judge the wisdom of a person ,you can ask one question  - ''do you pick flowers , accept or receive  garlands of  flowers ,decorate any thing ,place or occasion with flowers '' and he says 'yes ' he is not wise .*Gndhi never used to this with flowers (Murari Bapu who says Ram Katha does not allow flowers on his dais (Vyaspith the seat of Katha ) .a saint or person who does it can never be Religious .

*Yes ! we can use those flowers likely to fall down or we can pick them those fallen on Earth . 

*Lord Bauddha  was against even to harm a blade /leaf  of grass . we can not kill any that we can not create .

*To pluck flowers is an act of violence and against the theory of love . 

*we can plant flowers in our garden and homes and enjoy their beauty on plants . 

*Harming flowers is against the philosophy of preservation of Environment and in long run suicide .

Any argument otherwise is baseless and unwise .