Friday, July 25, 2014

Flora Zine


I have always been drawn to plants and flowers. I am sure there are a million reasons why, from my childhood love of climbing trees to read books among the branches, to my high school education at an agricultural school. 
While wandering through the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers (yet again) I began scheming a new small photo book/zine idea incorporating quotes and writing about plants, flowers, and growing with my photographs. The idea has a long way to go but here I'm doing a bit of exploring.  

I like it better here where I can just sit quietly and smell the flowers. -Ferdinand the Bull



Bloom where you're planted. -Mary Engelbreit



We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. -Abraham Lincoln



Every flower must grow through dirt. -Laurie Jean Sennott



Normality is a paved road: it's comfortable to walk but no flowers grow on it. -Vincent Van Gogh



A weed is but an unloved flower. -Ella Wheeler Wilcox



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



Flowers and plants are silent presences; they nourish every sense except the ear. -May Sarton



To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. -Audrey Hepburn