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"Much may be saif in favour of him who cultivates plants. The man of the pot is far more humane than he of the scissors.: We watch with delight his concern about water and sunshine, his feuds with parasites, his horror of frosts, his anxiety when the buds come slowly, his rapture when the leaves attain their lustre."

"In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. We eat, drink, sing, dance, and flirt with them. We wed and christen with flowers. We dare not die without them."

"In the trembling grey of a spring dawn, when the birds were whispering in a mysterious cadence among the trees, have you not felt that they were talking to their mates about the flowers?"

He has become modern, that is to say, old and disenchanted.

“Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.”

“Niuka, horncrowned and dragon-tailed, resplendent in her armor of fire. She welded the five-coloured rainbow in her magic cauldron and rebuilt the sky… Niuka forgot to fill two tiny crevices in the blue. Thus began the dualism of love-two souls rolling through space and never at rest until they join together to complete the universe. Everyone has to build anew his sky of hope and peace.”