"Let me be dressed fine ...."

Let me be dressed fine as I will,

Flies, worms, and flowers, exceed me still.

Isaac Watts

"The flower made Mahakasyapa smile ...."

“The flower made Mahakasyapa* smile.

Even a sage is transformed by a bloom.”

*Buddha’s disciple

"God does not make junk."

"God does not make junk."

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."

"To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set ...."

“To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set;

To draw hard breath over plowshare or spade;

To read, to think, to love, to pray, - these

are the things that make men happy.”

John Ruskin