“She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me.
I ought never to have run away from her…
I ought to have guessed all the affection
that lay behind her poor little stratagems.
Flowers are so inconsistent!
But I was too young to know how to love her…”
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
The Little Prince
“Even without seeing the crickets,
grasshoppers, cicadas, and katydids,
we hear them shrilling in this season
and trust that they’re the tiny
living gargoyles entomologists claim.”
~ Diane Ackerman
“Everyone wants instant everything,and they want instant success,
but I always think you should
treat things in the Arts
like a garden,
and let them grow.”
~ Penelope Keith
“Even in the smallest and humblest garden, a sturdy hydrangea at once proclaims the place
as the abode of a real gardener rather than
a mere purchaser of plants
to cover the landscape.”
~ Washington Park Arboretum Bulletin, 2006
“I think scent is sensual. I guess evoking a mood or a spirit is key, and I think with the women’s fragrances we have evoked different types, moods, or sensibilities of a woman – whether it’s Daisy with the sweetness and the innocence or Lola which is more provocative, sexy, and sultry.”
~ Marc Jacobs
“I want to encourage women
to embrace their own
uniqueness. Because just like
a rose is beautiful, so is a
sunflower, so is a peony. I
mean, all flowers are beautiful
in their own way, and that’s
like women, too.”
~ Miranda Kerr
“The common hill-flowers wither, but they blossom again. The laburnum will be as yellow next June as it is now. In a month there will be purple stars on the clematis, and year after year the green night of its leaves will hold its purple stars. But we never get back our youth.”~ Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”.
My Garden of Prayer
“My garden beautifies my yard
and adds fragrance to the air…
But it is also my cathedral
and my quiet place of prayer…
So little do we realize
that ‘the glory and the power’
Of He who made the universe
lies hidden in a flower.”
~ Helen Steiner Rice
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