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available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar.
Its smell reminds us in vestigial ways of fertility, vigor, life-force,
all the optimism, expectancy, and passionate bloom of youth.
We inhale its ardent aroma and, no matter what our ages,
we feel young and nubile in a world aflame with desire.
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every day of the year. I know of no other genus with one
or more species coming into bloom or growth,
peaking or going dormant at every season.
- Nancy Goodwin, Cyclamen
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we speak of a rose (nature), that has been bred (culture)
so that its blossoms (nature) make men
imagine (culture) the sex of women (nature)?
It may be this sort of confusion that we need more of.
- Michael Pollan, Second Nature, 1991
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or photographing it … So in later years, I have grown in my
garden as many flowers as possible for children to pick.
- Anne Scott-James
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Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream.
- Ernest Dowson, 1867 – 1900
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As is a boon to all men’s noziz, -
You’d fall upon your back and scream -
‘O Lawk! O criky! it’s a dream!’
- Edward Lear, 1885
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so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.
Bricks to all greenhouses!
Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
- Edward Abbey
Observe this dew-drenched rose of Tyrian gardens
A rose today. But you will ask in vain
Tomorrow what it is; and yesterday
It was the dust, the sunshine, and the rains.
- Christina Rosetti
You love the roses – so do I. I wish
The sky would rain down roses, as they rain
From off the shaken bush. Why will it not?
Then all the valley would be pink and white
And soft to tread on. They would fall as light
As feathers, smelling sweet; and it would be
Like sleeping and like waking, all at once!
- George Eliot, Roses
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and in the poetry of Persia. Charles II introduced the Persian
poetry to Europe, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu brought
the flower language from Turkey to England in 1716. It spread
to France and became a handbook of 800 floral messages
known as the Book Le Language des Fleurs. Lovers exchanged
messages as they gave each other selected flowers or bouquets.
A full red rose meant beauty. Red and white mean unity. Crocus
said “abuse not”, while a white rosebud warns that one is too
young for love. Yellow roses were for jealousy, yellow iris for
passion, filbert for reconciliation and ivy for marriage.
