Search Results for: Cultivated principally for their flowers
~iris murdoch, a fairly honourable defeat 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!
~ikkyu sojun perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time, so seems it as if the flowers, in musing modesty, await the mantling eventide ere they give themselves up wholly to feeling, and breathe forth their sweetest...
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