"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!"

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"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!"

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"Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots."

Nicholas Culpeper, English Scientist

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Jean Paul, German Author

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"Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive."

Brian Clough, English Athlete

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"Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms."

Ikkyu Sojun, Japanese Poet

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"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"Gather the flowers, but spare the buds."

Andrew Marvell, English Writer

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"There is no road of flowers leading to glory."

Jean de La Fontaine, French Poet

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"I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself."

Robert Mapplethorpe, American Photographer

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"There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way."

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"In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal."

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"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top."

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"Should a writer have a social purpose? Any honest writer is bound to become a critic of the society he lives in, and sometimes, like Mark Twain or Kurt Vonnegut or Leo Tolstoy or Francois Rabelais, a very harsh critic indeed. The others are sycophants, courtiers, servitors, entertainers. Shakespeare was a sychophant; however, he was and is also a very good poet, and so we continue to read him."

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"I am convinced now that the desert has no heart, that it presents a riddle which has no answer, and that the riddle itself is an illusion created by some limitation or exaggeration of the displaced human consciousness."

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"And the so-called 'political process' is a fraud: Our elected officials, like our bureaucratic functionaries, like even our judges, are largely the indentured servants of the commercial interests."

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"Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots."

"There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof."

"Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive."

"Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms."

"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy."

"Gather the flowers, but spare the buds."

"There is no road of flowers leading to glory."

"I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself."

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"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top."

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"Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate."

"Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion."

"I am convinced now that the desert has no heart, that it presents a riddle which has no answer, and that the riddle itself is an illusion created by some limitation or exaggeration of the displaced human consciousness."

"And the so-called 'political process' is a fraud: Our elected officials, like our bureaucratic functionaries, like even our judges, are largely the indentured servants of the commercial interests."