A Flowering of Men

AOM Meditations: Flowers

by Georgia O'Keeffe

“Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.” ~Georgia O'Keeffe

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“The earth laughs in flowers.”

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar.

Its smell reminds us in vestigial ways of fertility, vigor, life-force, all the optimism, expectancy, and passionate bloom of youth.

We inhale its ardent aroma and, no matter what our ages, we feel young and nubile in a world aflame with desire."

~Diane Ackerman,

(A Natural History of the Senses, 1990, p. 13)

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“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.”

~Iris Murdoch

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“I am in awe of flowers.

Not because of their colors,

but because even though they

have dirt in their roots,

they still grow.

They still bloom.”

~D. Antoinette Foy

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