April 5, 2008
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Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare,
And left the flushed print in a poppy there.
~Francis Thompson, "The Poppy," 1891
April 5, 2008
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Each flower is a soul opening out to nature.
- Gerald De Nerval
April 5, 2008
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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
- William Carlos Williams
April 5, 2008
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If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
- John Lancaster Spalding, Aphorisms and Reflections
April 5, 2008
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Flowers are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful,"
and siting in the shade.
- Rudyard Kipling
April 5, 2008
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None can have a healthy love for flowers
unless he loves the wild ones.
- Forbes Watson
April 5, 2008
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Where flowers bloom so does hope.
- Lady Bird Johnson
April 5, 2008
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Each flower is a soul opening out to nature.
- Gerald De Nerval
April 5, 2008
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If you pass by the color purple in a field and
don't notice it, God gets real pissed off.
- Alice Walker
April 5, 2008
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In the hope of reaching the moon
men fail to see the flowers
that blossom at their feet.
- Albert Schweitzer
April 5, 2008
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All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.
- Indian Proverb
April 5, 2008
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The Amen! of Nature is always a flower.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes