Quotes by Quinet, Edgar

Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes i >>

Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of thi >>

I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of >>

Quotations about Flowers

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Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while around them cities have changed their masters and their names, collided and smashed, disappeared into nothingness, their peaceful generations have crossed down the ages as fresh and smiling as on the days of battle.

Quinet, Edgar