A Commonplace Book

Category: flowers...

  • flowers are angiosperms, the evolutionary highest group of plants
  • there are inconspicuous structures of little resemblance to the common notion of flower, as in grasses and many trees
  • roses and petunias are radially symmetrical
  • flower-giving is still among the most popular of social amenities
  • cycling through the "flowered towns" of the Summit Route in the Vosges Mountains of France
  • weaving a wreath of frangipani flowers in Hawaii
  • kind hearts are gardens, kind thoughts are roots, kind words are flowers, kind deeds are fruits
  • stop and smell the flowers
  • no flower blooms for a thousand days. (Chinese proverb)
  • Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature. (G. De Nerval)
  • When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment...most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
  • I fear no man, no woman; flower does not fear bird, insect, or adder. (H. Doolittle)
  • a perfectly photographed dead flower

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