flowers

[threeplusfire]

"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they
are sunshine, food, and medicine to the soul."
-- Luther Burbank, American naturalist and plant breeder

"Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers
-- and never succeeding."
-- Marc Chagall, Russian-French painter and graphic artist

"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values
all the utilities of the world."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher, poet, essayist

"I am following Nature without being able to grasp her... I
perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."
-- Claude Monet, French artist

Comments

Flowers!

[tinywarrior.livejournal.com]

Flowers, more flowers!!! I can't imagine life without them. : )

Re: Flowers!

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

When I was younger, we had the most amazing rose bush in the back yard. Fifty roses would bloom at once, and it perfumed the entire yard. I miss that bush more than the house.

You just can't have too many flowers. :D