“Late February days; and now, at last, Might you have thought that Winter’s woe was past; So fair the sky...

“At some point in life, the world’s beauty becomes enough.” ~ Toni Morrison

Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose. For whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed. William Shakespeare  

“White rose in red rose-garden Is not so white; Snowdrops, that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the...

“All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you;...

“Pluck not the wayside flower; It is the traveler’s dower.” ~ William Allingham

“Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow; Gather the roses of life today.” ~ Pierre de Ronsard ;

“And the summer seems as though it would dream on for ever.” ~ Elizabeth von Arnim  

“I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.” ~ Edward Abbey

“Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer’s year. It brings to harvest all the loveliest...