Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almond— surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves. I… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a girl and I wanted to be a professional actor. I was born both but my flowering, if… — Rebecca Root Copy Share Image
Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states,… — Robert Fortune Copy Share Image
Pale purple as the bloom om a ripe plum, veined with the gold of late flowering gorse, set with small slender birches,just… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
You can call it godliness - it IS godliness. It is the highest, the greatest flowering of being. But it is not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Hope, how she had grown to hate the word. It was an insideious seed planted inside a person's soul, surviving covertly on… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Lupine: A flowering plant in the pea family with upright, showy spikes of colorful blossoms whose sweet scent inspires restoration and renewal” — Meg Donohue Copy Share Image
L.A. kills people.' Jacaranda said. 'You're lucky you're leaving. You'll be able to write.' She looked paler, going through another depression, smoking… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
While snow the window-panes bedim, The fire curls up a sunny charm, Where, creaming o'er the pitcher's rim, The flowering ale is… — John Clare Copy Share Image
Creation was given to people as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into people's souls. Sun and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
They [anarchists] spring from a single seed, no matter the flowering of their ideas. The seed is liberty. And that is all… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
Red RodsBefore elaborating any system of education, we must therefore create a favorable environment that will encourage the flowering of a child's… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Teach me to take all grace / And spring it into blades of act, / Grow spears and sheaves of charity, /… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
There is a continuity about the garden and an order of succession in the garden year which is deeply pleasing, and in… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
“Instead of celebrating with a cake (too full of poisonous refined sugars) and presents (too materialistic), my mother would come into my… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
“Doesn't every love express itself this way, with the seeds of both its flowering and its ruin in the very first words,… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I do not like detached creation. Neither can I conceive of the mind as detached from itself. Each of my works, each… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
The other day, when my 4-year-old saw a flowering tree and said, "Daddy, it's raining petals," that was poetry that just melted… — Brendan Fraser Copy Share Image
Because of Christianity the West has missed many things, and one of them is meditation, the rarest flowering of a human being,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My main life interest and purpose is to bring spiritual awakening into this world, to be a vehicle for the flowering of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
I'm a very big fan of winter-flowering shrubs and bulbs. You have the smell, you have the color - it's really like… — Dries van Noten Copy Share Image
The sport and game of angling is the true means and cause that brings a man into a merry spirit, which makes… — Juliana Berners Copy Share Image
People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. Thats ridiculous. If you rid the earth of… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
From the 9th to the 15th centuries, the area which is now modern Spain was home to the greatest peaceful agglomeration of… — Maya Beiser Copy Share Image
I return to the newborn world, and the soft-soil fields, What their first birthing lifted to the shores Of light, and trusted… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far… — Russell Page Copy Share Image
I see the liberty of the individual not only as a great moral good in itself (or, with Lord Acton, as the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Spirituality is the master key of the Indian mind. It is this dominant inclination of India which gives character to all the… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Like most of my poems, 'Lie' has several sources: I read a very troubling book called The Sixth Extinction. I took note… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with insects, particularly insect flight. I think the evolution of insect flight is perhaps one of the most important events… — Michael Dickinson Copy Share Image
Law is for the society; love is for the individual. Law is how you behave with others; love is how you behave… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And the greatest calamity that has happened to the human mind is that he is against death. Being against death means you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem… — Fernando de Rojas Copy Share Image
What we are seeing in America is the creaky old age of an eighteenth-century settlement, deemed at the time to be the… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
I have been interested in the 12th century since my 20s when it was very fashionable to say of anybody with whom… — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
I had learnt to seek intensity rather than happiness, not joys and prosperity but more of life, a concentrated sense of life,… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image