It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
There is a continuity about the garden and an order of succession in the garden year which is deeply pleasing, and in one sense there are no breaks or divisions - seed time flows on to flowering time and harvest time; no sooner is one thing dying than another is coming to life.
On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.
Plants are decisive to a fault. A stem produces a bud that flowers once and once only. It offers pollen that is either dispersed or goes nowhere. One pollen grain either enters a stigma or it falls upon stony ground. An ovum is either fertilized or the whole project stalls out.
The roots of the Divine are entrenched in this body. If you nurture the roots, how can you avoid the flowering?
Everything is soul and flowering.
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs.
Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90
Meditation is the nourishment for flowering.
I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared!
You can call it godliness - it IS godliness. It is the highest, the greatest flowering of being. But it is not a God somewhere outside you. You cannot pray to it. You can be it, but you cannot pray to it, because it is not separate.
The true definition of a perennial: Any plant which, had it lived, would have bloomed year after year.
While both plants and animals awaken via distinct changes in metabolic functioning, most plants prefer to err on the side of caution, waiting for hints of full-on summer before they bloom.
And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring, And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar, And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.
When one is total, life flowers - and that flowering is spirituality. Spirituality is not an attitude, it is not a discipline. It is an outcome of a life lived totally, joyfully, delightfully; of a life of no complaint; of a life lived courageously, intensely. Then this flowering happens.
The flowering of love is meditation.
There are times of great beauty on a coffee farm. When the plantation flowered in the beginning of the rains, it was a radiant sight, like a cloud of chalk, in the mist of the drizzling rain.
The very purpose of life is to reach the highest possible flowering.
The yellow glistens. It glistens with various yellows, Citrons, oranges and greens Flowering over the skin.
The begonia is an amazing plant... it just keeps going along and blooming, and when cut back, it starts up again.
Who are the violets now That strew the lap of the new-come spring?
To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.
Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.
