Quotes About Flowering

Way off in some indistinguishable distance—was it a mile or a million or a mote in his eye?—was a stunning peak that overarched the sky, climbed and climbed and spread out in flowering aigrettes,1 agglomerates,2 and archimandrites.

Self-expression through activity (not only inward but also, and especially, outward) is the natural perfection, the flowering of being.

Beauty of blood. Innocent beauty flowering in my weeping.

Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

And in busy London there now grew up one of the greatest gifts that the English genius was to leave the world. For in the reign of Elizabeth I began the first and greatest flowering of the glorious English theatre.

The way that social norms become social norms is not through any systematic process. It is through a flowering of an understanding within a culture.

Osho is a mystical giant, a flowering of a unique intelligence and one of those rare humans ex-pressing himself with joy.

April the anarchic, the final month, of spring the great connective. Pass any flowering bush or tree and you can't not hear it, the buzz of the engine, the new life already at work in it, time's factory.

Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.

Rainforests are not confined to the tropics: a good definition is forest wet enough to support epiphytes - plants that grow on other plants. Particularly in the west of Britain, where tiny fragments persist, you can find trees covered in rich growths of a fern called polypody, mosses and lichens, and flowering plants climbing the lower trunks.

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.

The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering and gardening.

I longed to be a flowering branch, the sea in its rocking, an unguessed world. Even now it seems so much as if the body was only the desire of the planet, as if it could turn itself into the universe both together, the same

Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.

Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.

The flowering of love is meditation.

Bartholomeus van Rijn, thirty-six, had bought a Coornhart and a Blijenburger from Double in the "dry bulb time" between flowering and replanting of the bulbs in the early autumn.

adaptability coupled with readiness to flower year after year right from the first, roses are clearly

adaptability coupled with readiness to flower year after year right from the first, roses are clearly one of the most versatile of plants for the landscape.

I do not like detached creation. Neither can I conceive of the mind as detached from itself. Each of my works, each diagram of myself, each glacial flowering of my inmost soul dribbles over me.

There was never any innocence for us, there was never any springtime. There was never any chance, no matter how beautiful the twilight gardens in which we wandered. Our souls were too out of tune, our desires crossed and our resentments to common and too well watered for the final flowering.

The way downhill, into the bottomless incredulity which is despair, was incandescent with flowering chestnut trees.

It was as if the light had coaxed a flowering from the frost, which before seemed barren and parched as salt. The grass shone with petal colors, and water drops spilled from all the trees as innumerably as petals.