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1. "Spring is the time of plans and projects." — Leo Tolstoy 2. "Blossom by blossom the spring begins." — Algernon Charles Swinburne 3. "You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring ...
“Blossom by blossom, the spring begins.” — Algernon Charles Swinburne “Spring is when life’s alive in everything.” — Christina Rossetti “April hath put a spirit of youth in ...
Nothing screams spring like a new haircut to whip around in the early season breeze. Whether you’re all about that spring state of mind—rebirth, new beginnings, growth, etc.—or you’re ...
The name Peach Blossom Spring (桃花源, Tao Hua Yuan) is now a well known, standard Chinese term for a utopia. This fable recounted by Tao Yuanming begins with a claim that it occurred in the Taiyuan era of the Jin dynasty (376–396). According to the story, a fisher gets lost and discovers a place out of time, but cannot find it again after ...
In botany, blossoms are the flowers of stone fruit trees (genus Prunus) and of some other plants with a similar appearance that flower profusely for a period of time in spring. Colloquially, flowers of orange are referred to as such as well. Peach blossoms (including nectarine), most cherry blossoms, and some almond blossoms are usually pink.
Flowering trees represented a source of spiritual renewal for Van Gogh; in 1883 he had written of the symbolism of the flowering tree, seeing the evidence of rebirth like the "man who finally produces something poignant as the blossom of a hard, difficult life, is a wonder, like the black hawthorn, or better still the gnarled old apple tree ...
Among them are quotes from luminaries like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mark Twain, who amusingly summed up spring's unpredictable weather by observing, "In the Spring, I ...
An inscription from lines 16 and 17 of the poem on a building at Ohio State University. "Rabbi ben Ezra" is a poem by Robert Browning about the famous Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra (1092–1167), one of the great Jewish poets and scholars of the 12th century.