Rose Blooms: "When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not." - Georgia O'Keeffe (Pingree Grove, Illinois)
Some Magical Rose Garden: "One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today." - Dale Carnegie (South Elgin, Illinois)
Life And Death: "To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever." - Amy Bloom (South Elgin, Illinois)
Abadoned Art: "Art is never finished, only abandoned." - Leonardo da Vinci (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
Lily Of The Sun: "Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine to the mind." - Luther Burbank (Pingree Grove, Illinois)
Autumn Too Long: "A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long." - e.e. cummings (Pingree Grove, Illinois)
Burning Bush: "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." - Albert Camus (Pingree Grove, Illinois)
San Francisco: "A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at the corner, or get a good hamburger or a bad girl at 4am. A city is where sirens make white streaks of sound in the sky and foghorns speak in dark greys. San Francisco is such a city." - Herb Caen (San Francisco, California)
DAYDREAM: "She floats in a daydream." - Unknown (South Elgin, Illinois)
