Uploads from Alexandra Rudge. Thanks for 269.000 + visits!, tagged tulipan

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. (Explore)

nobody@flickr.com (Alexandra Rudge. Thanks for 269.000 + visits!) — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:16:26 -0700

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Confucius.
California.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper. (Explore)

nobody@flickr.com (Alexandra Rudge. Thanks for 269.000 + visits!) — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 09:38:05 -0700

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Khalil Gibran.

Yellow tulips.California.

Tulips.

nobody@flickr.com (Alexandra Rudge. Thanks for 269.000 + visits!) — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:25:30 -0700

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The tulip is a perennial, bulbous plant with showy flowers in the genus Tulipa, which comprises 109 species and belongs to the family Liliaceae. The genus's native range extends from as far west as Southern Europe, North Africa, Anatolia, and Iran to the Northwest of China. The tulip's centre of diversity is in the Pamir, Hindu Kush, and Tien Shan mountains. A number of species and many hybrid cultivars are grown in gardens, as potted plants, or to display as fresh-cut flowers. Most cultivars of tulip are derived from Tulipa gesneriana.
Although tulips are often associated with the Netherlands, commercial cultivation of the flower began in the Ottoman Empire. The tulip, or lale (from Persian لاله, lâleh) as it is also called in Iran and Turkey, is a flower indigenous to a vast area encompassing arid parts of Africa, Asia, and Europe. The word tulip, which earlier appeared in English in forms such as tulipa or tulipant, entered the language by way of French tulipe and its obsolete form tulipan or by way of Modern Latin tulīpa, from Ottoman Turkish tülbend ("muslin" or "gauze"), and is ultimately derived from Persian dulband ("round").

“It is only goodness which gives extras,

nobody@flickr.com (Alexandra Rudge. Thanks for 269.000 + visits!) — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:10:41 -0800

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and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.” Arthur Conan Doyle.

Red and white tulip.

nobody@flickr.com (Alexandra Rudge. Thanks for 269.000 + visits!) — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:10:41 -0800

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I'd like to leave but daffodils to mark my little way,
To leave but tulips red and white behind me as I stray;
I'd like to pass away from earth and feel I'd left behind
But roses and forget-me-nots for all who come to find.
Edward Guest.

There is a way that nature speaks,

nobody@flickr.com (Alexandra Rudge. Thanks for 269.000 + visits!) — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 22:05:48 -0700

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that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough to pay attention to the story. Linda Hogan.

California.

Pink tulips.

nobody@flickr.com (Alexandra Rudge. Thanks for 269.000 + visits!) — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 22:45:59 -0700

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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower. Alan C. Kay.

California.

Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way;

nobody@flickr.com (Alexandra Rudge. Thanks for 269.000 + visits!) — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 22:46:00 -0700

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she better understands her own Affairs than we. Michel de Montaigne.

California.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

nobody@flickr.com (Alexandra Rudge. Thanks for 269.000 + visits!) — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 23:22:17 -0700

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Lao Tzu.

Yellow tulips. California.

“I shall be so brief that I have already finished”

nobody@flickr.com (Alexandra Rudge. Thanks for 269.000 + visits!) — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 09:07:17 -0700

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Salvador Dali.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

nobody@flickr.com (Alexandra Rudge. Thanks for 269.000 + visits!) — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 08:34:33 -0700

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Paramahansa Yogananda.

California.

"Eternity is one of the rare virtues of literature."

nobody@flickr.com (Alexandra Rudge. Thanks for 269.000 + visits!) — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:15:16 -0700

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Adolfo Bioy Casares.