Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues al

Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844

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The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him. – Auguste Rodin

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Keep not your roses for my dead, cold brow the way is lonely, let me feel them now. – Arabella Smith

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