#vegetable love

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Vegetable love

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“I don’t believe that the trees keep standing still, in loneliness, during the night.

They make love.

And between their branches and their roots

they blossom in tree tops,

In endless caresses.

When the sun rises,

It’s not the birds chirping that

land in my ears,

but what was left in the dawn

from all its rural groans.”

(Affonso Romano Dé Sant’anna)

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Transcreation ASJ

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Robert Mapplethorpe, Poppy (1988)

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In Africa, in Kenya, there's quite a beautiful flower. It's coral coloured with little green-tipped blossoms, rather like a hyacinth. If you reach out to touch it, you'd discover that the flower was not a flower at all, but a design made up of hundreds of tiny insects called Fattid [sic] bugs. They escape the eyes of hungry birds by living and dying in the shape of a flower.

-Sean Connery as Mark Rutland in Marnie

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“Birth of a Flower,” F. Percy Smith (1910)

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H. Isabel Adams, Wild Flowers of the British Isles

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She would have liked a lotus, or China asters or the Japanese Iris... but dandelions were what she chiefly saw. She liked their demure prettiness second to their everydayness; for in that latter quality she thought she saw a picture of herself, and it was comforting to find that what was common could also be a flower. And could be cherished! To be cherished was the dearest wish of the heart of Maud Martha Brown, and sometimes when she was not looking at dandelions (for one would not be looking at them all the time, often there were chairs and tables to dust or tomatoes to slice or beds to make or grocery stores to be gone to, and in the colder months there were no dandelions at all), it was hard to believe that a thing of only ordinary allurements--if the allurements of any flower could be said to be ordinary--was as easy to love as a thing of heart-catching beauty. 

-Gwendolyn Brooks, "Maud Martha"

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Naoko Ito, Ubiquitous, 2009

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NC state Farmers Market 🙃😄