Quote by Edward Abbey
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they ar

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! – Edward Abbey

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Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so. – Edward Abbey

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Mildly talented in a variety of ways but with no genuine ability in any one field, she was like me, the perennial hapless self-amused dilettante, half-worried by the slippage of time but determined to enjoy failure anyway. – Edward Abbey

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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. – Walt Whitman

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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. – Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858

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The quality of scent or perfume is essential, and any flower that lacks perfume is far from perfect, no matter what other qualities it may possess. – T.H. Cook, James Douglas, and J.F. McLeod, Carnations & Pinks, 1911

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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. – Walt Whitman

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