Wednesday, April 14, 2010

God's Handiwork

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock. ~Henry Ward Beecher, Star Papers: A Discourse of Flowers





















Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. ~Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858



'Tis my faith that every flower enjoys the air it breathes!~William Wordsworth, "Lines Written in Early Spring," Lyrical Ballads, 1798
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
~Claude Monet




I will be the gladdest thing under the sun!I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Afternoon on a Hill"
Earth laughs in flowers.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"



Photographs by Stacie

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