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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We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men. – 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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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. – Chinese Proverb

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Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms. – Ikkyu Sojun

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Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul. – The Koran

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The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. – Jean Giraudoux

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