Flowers teach hope and patience. Flowers teach tenderness. Flowers teach futility and amazement. You know me, I am always willing to learn. Besides, it is spring. The beautiful forces of nature refuse to remain silent and I feel like observing everything.
— Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to John Middleton Murry written c. April 1922 in "The Letters of Katherine Mansfield (Alfred A. Knopf, 1928) (via Alive on All Channels)













