Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers…and never succeeding. (~Gian Carlo Menotti)

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Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. (~Theodore Roethke)

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The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. (~Paul Valery)

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Love is much like a wild rose: beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. (~Mark Overby)

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Photography is savoring life at 1/100th of a second. (~Marc Riboud)

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Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor. (~F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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