Nature Flowers

"And how this proud nature, this spurned virgin, exacts her magnificent revenge through a lavish display of beauties withheld from the company of man: great purple orchids, like dream-borne butterflies poised upon taut threads; the radiant allure of asters the hue of the sky; the countless golden stars of the hudsonias; the supple, lily-like grace of slender cotton grasses!"

Brother Marie-Victorin, botanist, professor, proponent of French-Canadian nationalism and founder of the Montreal Botanical Gardens