flowers

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"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