We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, in…

Ray Bradbury
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We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam. ✨ Ray Bradbury (1951). Fahrenheit 451: A Novel, Simon and Schuster
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