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Gardeners produce flowers that are delicious dreams, and others too that are like nightmares.

A Tennyson garden, heavy with scent, languid; the return of the word swoon.

Also I could hear Amanda’s voice: Why are you being so weak? Love’s never a fair trade. So Jimmy’s t...

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Margaret AtwoodThe Year of the Flood

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and s...

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This morning the green fists of the peonies are getting readyto break my heartas the sun rises, as t...

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Look, hasn't my body already felt like the body of a flower?

How did these organs of plant sex manage to get themselves cross-wired with human ideas of value and...

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Michael PollanThe Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence....

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How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers." ~ Mother Teresa...

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That's oak leaf, for bravery. I've got Veronica and Honeysuckle, for fidelity and affection. And tha...

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Neil GaimanFree Country: A Tale of The Children's Crusade

It must be a real betrayal, when your body turns against you. I wonder if she likes flowers. All the...

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I wanted to shout down to him, to warn him that he was giving flowers to a monster, but I did not.

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

One thing is certain and the rest is lies The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.

I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled That every Hyac...

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But neither milk-white rose nor red May bloom in prison air;The shard, the pebble, and the flint, Ar...

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Bosie has insisted on stopping here for sandwiches. He is quite like a narcissus -- so white and gol...

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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

I love you like the plant that does not bloomand carries in itself, hidden, the light of those flowe...

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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening ...

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His love for me seemed to overflow my limits by its flood of wealth and service. But my necessity wa...

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Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray o...

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Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray o...

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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every...

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And I came back and it was great, 'cuz George had set up all these flowers all over the studio sayin...

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Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.

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Robert A. HeinleinThe Cat Who Walks Through Walls

Any noseMay ravage with impunity a rose.

But ne'er the rose without the thorn.

The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of t...

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Why is marriage the pinnacle for everyone? People get married for the wrong reasons. We need to star...

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Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will al...

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This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will bl...

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The bright flower was like a face. Somehow, the beauty and life of it were surprising in the plain r...

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I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like t...

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I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaces...

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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

Cerulean left. I wondered if she was from Flower Planet. Blue flowers were rare - one might take a n...

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From golden showers of the ancient skies,On the first day, and the eternal snow of stars,You once un...

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Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

The GeraniumWhen I put her out, once, by the garbage pail,She looked so limp and bedraggled,So fooli...

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To embrace the whole world in friendship is wisdom. This wisdom is not changeable like the flowers t...

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The next morning, when Thomasin withdrew the curtains of her bedroom window, there stood the Maypole...

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Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Suc...

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And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

A few flat clouds folded themselves like crepes over fillings of apricot sky. Pompadours of supper-t...

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And that night he couldn't sleep, but lay looking out at the light June night which was full of lone...

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Tove JanssonFinn Family Moomintroll

Royal summoned mourners. They came from the village, from the neighboring hills and, wailing like do...

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Her bedroom window overlooked the garden, and now and then, usually when she was "having a bad spell...

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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate...

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God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.

A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and...

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Roses," she thought sardonically, "All trash, m’dear.

and it was the moment between six and seven when every flower-roses, carnations, irises, lilac-glows...

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When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd And the great star early droop'd in the western sky the ni...

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

Trees were not hard, irritable things, but discreetly orgasmic beings moaning at a level too deep fo...

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It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some t...

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Those are my bougainvillea—I got Victoria to plant them today, but I don;t know if they will survive...

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The shrub that half concealed her was a malignant plant, a Madagascan tanghin tree with wide, box-li...

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Endless love and voluptuous appetite pervaded this stifling nave in which settled the ardent sap of ...

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There Albine lay, panting, exhausted by love, her hands clutched closer and closer to her heart, bre...

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Émile ZolaLa Faute de l'abbé Mouret

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

She grew up in the ordinary paradise of the English countryside. When she was five she walked to sch...

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In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge t...

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In your Curled petals what ghosts Of blue headlands and seas, What perfumed immortal breath sighing ...

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And how do you know that these fine begonias are not of equal importance?

Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flow...

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Albert CamusThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth.

Mindfulness is not the path of chasing. It is the path of beautification. When flowers blossom, the ...

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

Collaboration is the essence of life. The wind, bees and flowers work together, to spread the pollen...

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

Mindfulness gives us the power to understand our deep connection with the trees, flowers, stars, sun...

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Amit RayMindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

The job of the united nations is to grow more flowers on the earth.

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Amit RayPeace on the Earth A Nuclear Weapons Free World

Some roads are covered with flower. Some hearts are full with kindness.

Every day, bring some flowers to your life. Every day bring some blessings in someone’s life.

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Amit RayWalking the Path of Compassion

I always notice flowers.

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing...

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... from the classically executed lifelike bouquets, tempting you to reach for the petals that fell ...

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Louis found me in the rear parlor, the one more distant from the noises of the tourists in the Rue R...

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I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from...

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Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

My strength never came from political echelons, it came from the family. And from the fields and the...

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What a lovely thing a rose is!"He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping ...

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It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flower...

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Better a crust of black bread than a mountain of paper confections, Better a daisy in earth than a d...

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She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent h...

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The frozen flowers never go away. They hang around somewhere all the time. I think we need to talk ab...

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Arundhati RoyThe Ministry of Utmost Happiness

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bend...

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Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured ...

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Flowers for me are just things to give to a beatiful woman.

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It t...

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...You won't get eternal life by just feeling the presence of God in flowers or music.

Only five minutes later he noticed a dozen crocuses growing round the foot of an old tree- gold and ...

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There was certainly plenty to watch and listen to. The tree which Digory had noticed was now a full-...

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The same thing that had happened with the flowers was happening with my longing: once I held it in m...

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