"Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Topic(s): Beauty Tags: assertion, flowers, proud More From Ralph Waldo Emerson "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." "Nature always wears the colors of the spirit." "The highest revelation is that God is in every man." More In Beauty "Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings."― Elisabeth Kubler-Ross "The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects – making it possible… to see a new beauty in what is vanishing."― Susan Sontag "A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty."― William C. Bryant