Sotto Voce

A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring. ~The Collected Later Poems of William Carlos Williams

Listen

Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning. ~Lydia M. Child

MagneticI believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. ~Henry David Thoreau

A reason to live

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. ~Alice Walker

Crazed flowers

Bring me then the plant that points to those bright Lucidites swirling up from the earth,

And life itself exhaling that central breath!

Bring me the sunflower crazed with the love of light. ~Eugenio Montale