“To Be….Most Perfectly Alive!”

On By cindy knokeIn Flowers, GARDENING AT THE HOLLER, MY PHOTOGRAPHS

Sunflower and friend.

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“For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.” DH Lawrence

Lily of the Nile
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“The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.” Honore De Balzac

St. John’s Wort
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“I have lost my smile, but don’t worry. The dandelion has it.” Thich Nhat Hanh

Red Coneflower
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“There are no flowers in the Moon; that’s why the Moon is a boring place!” Mehmet Murat ildan

Morning Glory
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“The sun shone through them, revealing a pattern of interlacing, delicate blue veins, visible through the opaque petals; this added something alive to the flower’s fragility, to it’s ethereal quality, something almost human, in the way that human can mean frailty and endurance both at the same time.” Irene Nemirovsky

Magnolia
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“How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning.” Vincent van Gogh

May you see flowers everyday!

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132 thoughts on ““To Be….Most Perfectly Alive!””

      1. Nope. Other flora… poison ivy; Black nightshade – it’s relative pretty purple flowers and the white berries are used for making a lacquer.
        Tomatoes are part of the family of poison ivy…but they don’t bother me.

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  6. Cindy, You have again stopped by and “liked” my current post, I do appreciate your continued support of my efforts. Thank you, take care, Bill

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