ROSE COLLAGE...

"I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday... 

...sweet and fragrant, between its leaves..."

                                                                                               - L.M Montgomery

"It is the time you have wasted on your rose... 

...that makes your rose important..." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 "The rose shadow said that they loved the sun...

...but that they also loved the dark..." -Robin McKinley

"The rose is a rose...

                          ...And was always a rose..." -Robert Frost

                      ......."she had roses..." -Holly Lynn Payne

"The gentle rose offers a powerful joy..

..known only to the heart..."-Andrew Pacholyck

"There had never been such roses... 

...as had bloomed that summer..."-Angela Carter

"My mother used to grow roses in her garden. We'd pick them together every morning..." -Elizabeth Lim

"...as a breath held inside a rose..." - John Daniel Theme

"...that first ever rose to have fragranced the rest of my memories..." -Sanober Khan

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BEYOND the RAKE ....

"In every walk with nature, one receives more than he seeks..." 

                     - John Muir

CENTAUREA......

"The best place to find God is in the garden. You can dig for Him there..."_ George Bernard Shaw

"They run like deer, leap like deer, and think like deer..."

                          - Charles Barkley

                                     Peony.............

"Shut your eyes and dream of the garden you'd love most..." -Jackie French

"You are the sky, everything else is just the weather..." -Pema Chodron

Mr. Spencer, from the hill, snoozes in the afternoon.....

"There is a garden in very childhood,  an enchanted place...." 

                                                                                          -Elizabeth Lawrence

"In nature, nothing is perfect, and everything is perfect..."

                 - Alice Walker

"My soul can find no staircase to Heaven, unless it be thru Earth's loveliness.." - Michealangelo

"In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.." -Aristotle

"My feet will tread soft as a deer in the forest. My mind will be clear as water from the sacred well. My heart will be strong as a great oak. My spirit will spread an eagle's wings, and fly forth." --Juliet Marillier

Wild Sweet Peas.....

                                          ......Columbine.....

"Look deep into nature, and the you will understand everything else.." - Albert Einstein

"I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer...." - Queen Latifah

                   .......Peace and quiet....

"As the deer pants for the water, so my soul longs for you. You alone are my heart's desire and I long to worship you.." 

               -Marty Nystrom

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