where worth is found

How could anyone value a tiara over the brief beauty of a roadside flower?

haute couture

Fashion: If you’re young and beautiful you can wear anything or nothing at all.

more than aesthetics

Evil, it could be said, is the inability to experience beauty.

ugly under glass

A butterfly is just a specimen under glass. A butterfly is only beautiful in flight or, however briefly, alighted upon a leaf or flower.

paradise wasted

It’s sad to think of a place called Paradise after the fall. A place of great beauty and bounty that just goes on and on, all wasted, with no one there to experience it.