:: "Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity." ~ John Ruskin ::
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   :: "The tulips should be behind bars like dangerous animals..." ~ Sylvia Plath ::
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   :: "Gather ye rose-buds while ye may..." Robert Herrick ::
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   :: "I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face."  ~ Langston Hughes ::
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   ::       “Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume” ~ Jean de Boufflers ::
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   :: "...O and the sea the sea crimson sometimes like fire..." ~ James Joyce, Ulysses ::
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   :: "The calla lilies are in bloom again..." ~ Katherine Hepburn, Stage Door, 1937 ::
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   :: "Sugar magnolia, blossoms blooming, heads all empty and I don't care..." ~ Robert Hunter & Bob Weir ::
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   :: "When the deep purple falls, over sleepy garden walls..." Mitchell Rose ::
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   :: "When spring comes the grass grows by itself." ~ Tao Te Ching ::
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   :: "Gee, Toto, I don't think we are in Kansas anymore..." ~ Dorothy Gayle ::
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   :: "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."  ~ Albert Camus ::
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   ::  'We are nearer to Spring than we were in September, I heard a bird sing in the dark of December..." ~ Oliver Herford ::
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   :: "The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible." ~ Oscar Wilde ::
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   :: "The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers."  ~Basho ::
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   :: "You don't take a photograph.  You ask, quietly, to borrow it."  ~Author Unknown ::
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   :: "It is at the edge of a petal that love waits." ~ William Carlos Williams ::
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   :: "Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances." ~ Maya Angelou ::
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   :: “Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education...” ~ Mark Twain ::
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   :: "When love is not madness, it is not love."  ~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca ::
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   ::       “Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that, I'll be over here, looking through your stuff.” ~ Jack Handy ::
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   :: "Overnight, very Whitely, discreetly, Very quietly..." ~ Sylvia Plath "Mushrooms" ::
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   :: lilies ::
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   :: "August rushes by like desert rainfall..." ~ Elizabeth Maua Taylor ::
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