We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true that that renewal comes at a price, for even if the flower grows from an ancient vine, the flowers of spring are themselves new to the world, untried and untested. The flower that wilted last year is gone. Petals once fallen are fallen forever. Flowers do not return in the spring, rather they are replaced. It is in this difference between returned and replaced that the price of renewal is paid. And as it is for spring flowers, so it is for us. Daniel Abraham
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In this quote, Ralph Waldo Emerson talks about the return of spring and the renewal of the world, but he also talks about the price that must be paid for that renewal. While it is true that flowers do return every spring, their return does not come without a cost. They were not always there and as such, they must be brought back as if they had never been away. Sometimes we forget how fragile life is and we can quickly become blind to the ways in which life is renewed.

Source: The Price Of Spring

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