Who can estimate the elevating and refining influences and moral 
value of flowers with all their graceful forms, bewitching shades 
and combinations of colors and exquisitely varied perfumes? 
These silent influences are unconsciously felt even by those who
do not appreciate them consciously and thus with better and still
better fruits, nuts, grains, vegetables and flowers, will the earth
be transformed, man's thought refined, and turned from the base
destructive forces into nobler production. One which will lift him
to high planes of action toward the happy day when the Creator
of all this beautiful work is more acknowledged and loved, and 
where man shall offer his brother man, not bullets and bayonets,
but richer grains, better fruit and fairer flowers from the bounty 
of this earth. - G. Schoener