From Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-glass Chapter II: The Garden of Live Flowers

“O Tiger-lily!” said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, “I wish you could talk!”

“We can talk,” said the Tiger-lily, “when there’s anybody worth talking to.”

Alice was so astonished that she couldn’t speak for a minute: it quite seemed to take her breath away. At length, as the Tiger-lily only went on waving about, she spoke again, in a timid voice–almost a whisper. “And can all flowers talk?”

“As well as you can,” said the Tiger-lily. “And a great deal louder.”

AP Photo:

Caption: “A sunflower whose seeds have been picked out to resemble a scary face is seen on a cloudy day in Nyon, Switzerland, Friday, July 23, 2004. Heavy rains and thunderstorms crossed Switzerland the past few days. (AP Photo/Keystone, Fabrice Coffrini)”