"I paint flowers to prevent them from dying"
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"Let the straight flower bespeak its purpose in straightness - to seek the light. Let the crooked flower bespeak its purpose in crookedness - to seek the light. Let the crookedness and straightness bespeak the light."
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"As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up."
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"If someone smells a flower and says he does not understand, the reply to him is: there is nothing to understand, it is only a scent. If he persists, saying: that I know, but what does it all mean? Then one has either to change the subject, or make it more abstruse by saying that the scent is the shape which the universal joy takes in the flower."
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"And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true."
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"As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world."
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"Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle."
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"All flowers talk to me and so do hundreds of little living things in the woods. I learn what I know by watching and loving everything."
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"The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight."
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"Whoever reaches into a rosebush may seize a handful of flowers; but no matter how many one holds, it's only a small portion of the whole. Nevertheless, a handful is enough to experience the nature of the flowers. Only if we refuse to reach into the bush, because we can't possibly seize all the flowers at once, or if we spread out our handful of roses as if it were the whole of the bush itself -- only then does it bloom apart from us, unknown to us, and we are left alone."
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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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"Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of this flower"
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"Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour."
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"Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden."
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"Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?"
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"What's our baggage? Only vows, Happiness, and all our care, And the flower that sweetly shows Nestling lightly in your hair."
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"Like a lovely flower full of color but lacking in fragrance, are the words of those who do not practice what they teach."
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"The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated."
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"Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed."
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"O my child, bethink you that just as the bee, having gathered heaven's dew and earth's sweetest juices from amid the flowers, carries it to her hive; so the Priest, having taken the Saviour, God's Own Son, Who came down from Heaven, the Son of Mary, Who sprang up as earth's choicest flower, from the Altar, feeds you with that Bread of Sweetness and of all delight."
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