Petal attraction

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.  

~ Claude Monet

  

The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.  

~Robert Leighton

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
~ Henri Matisse

A beautiful flower begins its life in the dirt.
~ Author Unknown

     In the hope of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
                                                           ~Albert Schweitzer   

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.
~ Persian proverb 

Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.
~ French proverb

A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers. 

~ Chinese proverb 

Where flowers bloom, so does hope. 

~ Ladybird Johnson

  

Shortening your travel time?

... your travel time on earth as a pilgrim, that is :-)

From here to eternity

So humanist groups started trying to get their message across via advertising.




Thing is, splashing all the buses in the world with the most imaginatively executed ads conveying this same idea will not change the truth:










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Festivity on wheels

I was driving down University Ave. this morning at the University of the Philippines campus erwhen I saw it making its way on the other lane. Have you attempted to get good snapshots of a moving subject while you're driving and trying to keep to your lane and figuring out how many seconds you have before you reach the intersection? Well, it was a bit amusing; fortunately there weren't too many other cars around.

This is probably part of some exhibit on campus, as February is Diliman Month. 2008 is the centenary of the State University, and the Diliman campus is gearing up for some events this month to celebrate.