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A Stroll in the Garden

Posted on August 11, 2019 | 8 comments

Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful. – Jim Carrey

A flower blossoms for its own joy. – Oscar Wilde

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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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Tagged Calendula, cherry, D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence, daisy, Delphinium, Field Pea, floral garden, flower garden, Jim Carrey, LCsCottage, Oscar Wilde, phlox, Poppy, Sea Holly

A Stroll in the Garden

Posted on August 1, 2019 | 8 comments

We may think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it’s our garden that is nurturing us. -Jenny Uglow

May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day. -Native American Proverb

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Like wildflowers, you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people never thought you would. -E.V.

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A Stroll in the Garden

Posted on July 28, 2019 | 2 comments

“So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?” -Matthew 6:28–29

“This is what l love about flowers. Wherever possible, they just grow; in between the weeds, through a crack in a stone, in the middle of mud or moss – they just grow fearlessly, so confident of their short-lived beauty.” ― Asma Naqi

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“Flowers only know to fragrance, nothing else. Be that, to beautify, and perfume the feelings of others.” ― Ehsan Sehgal

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Tagged Asma Naqi, daisy, Ehsan Sehgal, floral garden, larkspur, LCsCottage, lily, Matthew 6:28–29, phlox, Poppy, rose, summer flowers, yellow flowers