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Rose Festival Entrance
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Dove
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Cupid
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The Rose Festival coincided with the Ulsan Environmental Festival
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Indoor plant exhibit.
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I wanted to buy this one for my apartment.
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The blossoms on this one were really unique. Like Blue Bells, but pink.
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Korean bonsai.
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Each rose had a little plaque explaining its origin.
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“How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose." - Anne Bronte
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"Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower." - William C. Bryant
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"We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves." - Clive Bell
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"A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true." - Ray Evans
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"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world." - Leo Buscaglia
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Whale
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"And she was fair as is the rose in May." - Geoffrey Chaucer
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"Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all." - W. Somerset Maugham
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An aspiring photographer
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"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Promoting next month's potter festival.
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Main stage of the Ulsan Environmental Fair.
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Multicolor
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Flowers beside the butterfly garden.
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Where can we live?
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Some kind of inflatable plastic mountain for the kids to play on.
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Kids Playground