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When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!"

Henri Rousseau
Green, Sun, Flowering
Cornelia Stabenow, Henri Rousseau (1994). “Henri Rousseau, 1844-1910”, Taschen

All are nothing but flowers in a flowering universe.

Soen Nakagawa
Flower, Flowering, Universe

A nothing we were, are, shall remain, flowering: the nothing--, the no one's rose.

Paul Celan
Rose, Holocaust, Flowering
Paul Celan (1972). “Selected poems”, Penguin Books Ltd

We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.

David Whyte
Earth, Flowering, Species

Everything is soul and flowering.

Rumi
Soul, Flowering

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.

Rajneesh
God, Praying, Flowering

Love has to be…flowering like the stars, and measureless as a kiss.

Pablo Neruda
Stars, Kissing, Flowering

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

Isak Dinesen
Teenage, Men, Flowering

The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty, Virtue, Flowering
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.95, Jazzybee Verlag

On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.

James Salter
Writing, Internet, Flowering
"James Salter: the forgotten hero of American literature". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2013.

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