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Ruth Weston
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| "A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics
of books." | |
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Walt Whitman
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| "All gardening is landscape painting." | |
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Alexander Pope
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| "All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today and
yesterday." | |
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Proverb
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| "And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the
first to be touch"d by the thorns." | |
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Charles Lamb
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| "And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the
field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say
unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of
these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day
is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe
you, O ye of little faith?" | |
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The Bible
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| "Any nose May ravage with impunity a rose." | |
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Robert Browning
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| "Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only
when it is cloudless? To long for the moon while looking on the rain, to
lower the blinds and be unaware of the passing of the spring - these are
even more deeply moving. Branches about to blossom or gardens strewn with
flowers are worthier of our admiration." | |
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Yoshida Kenko
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| "Bloom where you are planted." | |
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Nancy Reader Campion
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| "Break open A cherry tree And there are no flowers, But the spring
breeze Brings forth myriad blossoms." | |
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Ikkyu Sojun
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| "Correct handling of flowers refines the personality." | |
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Bokuyo Takeda
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| "Each flower is a soul opening out to nature." | |
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Gerald De Nerval
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| "Earth laughs in flowers ..." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "Even on the road to hell, flowers can make you smile." | |
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Deng Ming-Dao
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| "Even though flowers fall, don"t regret it. Even though weeds grow,
don"t hate them. Don"t arouse the passions of attraction and repulsion,
hating and loving. If only we don"t arouse the passions, the falling of
flowers and the growing of weeds as they are is manifest absolute
reality." | |
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Hakuun Yasutani
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| "Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He
attracts and follows." | |
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Jean Paul Richter
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| "Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor
conflicts." | |
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Sigmund Freud
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| "Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a
soul to." | |
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William Beckford
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| "For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to
be most vividly, most perfectly alive." | |
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David Herbert Lawrence
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| "Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying: And
this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying." | |
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Robert Herrick
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| "He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower." | |
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Mary Howitt
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| "I sometimes think that never blows so red The rose as where some
buried Caesar bled." | |
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Edward Fitzgerald
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| "I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o"er vales and
hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils." | |
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William Wordsworth
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| "If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says : "I"m
cheap!"" | |
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Delta Burke
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| "It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street,
to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the
radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the
sun." | |
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Henry Ward Beecher
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| "It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry
that we truly live." | |
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Henry Beston
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| "Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany
is Latin names." | |
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Douglas Jerrold
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| "Madame, that is by far the ugliest nose I have ever seen and I
compliment you on it, it suits you!" | |
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Richard Henry "Peter" Sellers
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| "My life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, But
ere the shades of evening close Is scattered on the ground?to die." | |
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Richard Henry Wilde
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| "No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross,
no crown." | |
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William Penn
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| "One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their
beautiful reserve." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with
joy the whole time to have such things about us." | |
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Jean Iris Murdoch
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| "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose." | |
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Gertrude Stein
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| "The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When
mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers." | |
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Thich Nhat Hanh
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| "The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my
veins night and day in rhythmic measure. It is the same life that shoots
in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of
flowers." | |
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Rabindranath Tagore
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| "This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow"s
happiness grow." | |
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Margaret Lindsey
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| "To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one
of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to attempt to fully
understand." | |
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Henry T. Tuckerman
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| "To create a little flower is the labor of ages." | |
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William Blake
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| "What"s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would
smell as sweet;" | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "When at last I took the time to look into the heart of a flower, it
opened up a whole new world; a world where every country walk would be an
adventure, where every garden would become an enchanted one." | |
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Princess Grace of Monaco
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| "Why is it no one ever sent me yet One perfect limousine, do you
suppose? Ah no, it"s always just my luck to get One perfect rose." | |
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Dorothy Parker
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| "Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose. That Youth"s
sweet-scented manuscript should close! The Nightingale that in the
branches sang Ah" | |
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Omar Khayyam
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