“The flower is the poetry of reproduction.”

- Jean Giraudoux -

“I would rather have a moment of beautiful than a lifetime of nothing special.”

- Steel Magnolias -

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may

- Robert Herrick -

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

- Michel de Montaigne -

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 -