"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises." ― Pedro Calderon de la Barca Topic(s): Nature More From Pedro Calderon de la Barca "These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night’s arms." "One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it." "For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams." More In Nature "You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet."― Hal Borland "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."― Anais Nin "Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem."― Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton