Photos by Lolita

July 28, 2007

 

"A dozen roses is a choir:
A Single rose is its soloist."

----Karen

 

 

 

 

 

"He/she who would have beautiful roses in his garden must have beautiful roses in his heart."

----Samuel Reynolds Hole, rosarian, 1869

 

 

 

 

 

 

"You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, but the scent of the roses will hang round it still."

---Thomas Moore

 

 

 

 

 

"There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals."

 

----John Ruskin, Stones of Venice