"Earth laughs in flowers." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Topic(s): Nature Tags: earth, flowers, laughs More From Ralph Waldo Emerson "No great man ever complains of want of opportunity." "Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait." "It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." More In Nature "Self-defence is Nature’s eldest law."― John Dryden "In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them."― Aldo Leopold "It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured."― Tacitus