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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 ~ Iris Murdoch
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Each flower is a soul opening out to nature ~ Gerald De Nerval
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Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers ~ Claude Monet
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The temple bell stops but I still hear
the sound coming out of the flowers ~ Basho
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Where flowers bloom so does hope ~ Lady Bird Johnson
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'Tis my faith that every flower
enjoys
the air it breathes! ~ William Wordsworth
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Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity ~ John Ruskin
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Wildflowers don't care where they grow ~ Dolly Parton
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... Bring me the sunflower crazed with the love of light ~ Eugenio Montale
Photo by Barb Tingler
2004