In Culture
- The sunflower is the state flower of the US state of Kansas, and one of the city flowers of Kitakyūshū, Japan.
- The sunflower is often used as a symbol of green ideology. The sunflower is also the symbol of the Vegan Society.
- During the late 19th century, the flower was used as the symbol of the Aesthetic Movement.
- Subject of Van Gogh's most famous series of paintings, Sunflowers
- The sunflower is the national flower of Ukraine.
- The sunflower was chosen as the symbol of the Spiritualist Church for many reasons, but mostly because it turns toward the sun as "Spiritualism turns toward the light of truth" Even though sunflowers face easterly all day long.. Modern Spiritualists often have art or jewelry with sunflower designs.
- Starting from February 2010, Kuban Airlines of Russia painted part of its fleet in a new livery featuring enormous sunflowers.
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Famous quotes containing the word culture:
“In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, we are already little men. Give me a culture which imports much muck from the meadows, and deepens the soil,—not that which trusts to heating manures, and improved implements, and modes of culture only!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“He was one whose glory was an inner glory, one who placed culture above prosperity, fairness above profit, generosity above possessions, hospitality above comfort, courtesy above triumph, courage above safety, kindness above personal welfare, honor above success.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 1, ch. 1 (1962)