There is simply the rose.

Caisses de roses (s/d), Louis Tessier (1719 - 1786)

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"These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time for them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. But man postpones and remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to forsee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays and Lectures

Penguin

1983