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“The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose.”

Love Ends Flower Survival Rose Bitterness Scent

Author:Francis Thompson

“Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.”

Writing Stories Grief Achieve Taught Flower Limits Survival Garden Fingers Gardening Exhaustion Writing Stories

Author:Eudora Welty

“My grandmother lived in a universe filled with life. It was impossible for her to conceive of any creature - even the smallest insect, let alone a human being - as insignificant. In every leaf, flower, animal, and star she saw an expression of a compassionate universe, whose laws were not competition and survival of the fittest but cooperation, artistry and thrift. . . .”

“Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face with any one of the elaborate flowers which man's cultivation has had nothing to do with, it does not seem fantastic to me. We put survival first. But when we have a margin of safety left over, we expend it in the search for the beautiful. Who can say that Nature does not do the same?”

Men Firsts Doe Seems Beautiful Faces Left Beauty Possibility Flower Survival Safety Fantastic Margins Face To Face Cultivation

Book:And Even If You Do: Essays on Man, Manners & Machines

Source: And Even If You Do: Essays on Man, Manners & Machines

“Loving behavior contributes to the group at the expense of the individual. Competition contributes to the survival of the individual at the expense of the group. In the garden of life, some people are more like flowers, and other people are more like weeds.”

People Individual Groups Flower Behavior Survival Garden Competition Individuality Expenses Weed

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.”

Knows Grows Flower Survival Hip Hop Rap Ghetto Meadows

Author:Talib Kweli

“Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds...flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism.”

Acceptance Flower Survival Contribution Endurance Mechanism Aesthetic Formation Bud Flowering

Author:Ann Zwinger