Parenting as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power entails lower status less power and less control of resources than paid work.

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows it flowers wilts and dies scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

The artist is the confidant of nature flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

I did not want to be a tree a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body we as audience must see ourselves not the imitated behavior of everyday actions not the phenomenon of nature not exotic creatures from another planet but something of the miracle that is a human being.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

The fairest thing in nature a flower still has its roots in earth and manure.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Let a hundred flowers bloom let a hundred schools of thought contend.

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

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers so long as they are wild free spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

Forests lakes and rivers clouds and winds stars and flowers stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Earth laughs in flowers.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean and the instruments are little or bigger islands very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

Taking pre-natal vitamins can minimise birth defects and can lower the chances both of morning sickness and premature delivery.

We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season.