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Jimson Weed by Georgia O'Keeffe
“Nobody sees a flower, really, it is so small.
We haven’t time – and to see takes time
like to have a friend takes time.”
~ Georgia O’Keeffe
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A glance, that, into the deepest deep of Beauty.
'The lilies of the field,'—dressed finer than earthly princes,
springing-up there in the humble furrow-field;
a beautiful eye looking-out on you,
from the great inner Sea of Beauty!
How could the rude Earth make these if her Essence,
rugged as she looks and is, were not inwardly Beauty?
~Thomas Carlyle,
(The Hero as Poet," lecture, 1840)
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If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;
what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.
~Johann von Schiller
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A flower's fragrance declares to all the world
that it is fertile, available, and desirable,
its sex organs oozing with nectar.
Its smell reminds us in vestigial ways of fertility,
vigor, life-force, all the optimism, expectancy,
and passionate bloom of youth.
We inhale its ardent aroma and,
no matter what our ages,
we feel young and nubile
in a world aflame with desire.
~Diane Ackerman,
(A Natural History of the Senses, 1990, p. 13)
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Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
~Gerard de Nerval
