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“A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.”

Culture Flower Finest

Book:Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

Source: Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

“Leisure, itself the creation of wealth, is incessantly engaged in transmuting wealth into beauty by secreting the surplus energy which flowers in great architecture, great painting and great literature. Only in the atmosphere thus engendered floats that impalpable dust of ideas which is the real culture. A colony of ants or bees will never create a Parthenon.”

Ideas Real Culture Literature Energy Wealth Creation Painting Flower Architecture Dust Atmosphere Engaged Leisure Bees Floats Ants Colony Surplus Incessantly Great Literature Parthenon

Author:Edith Wharton

“It is very rare to find ground which produces nothing; if it is not covered with flowers, with fruit trees and grains, it produces briers and pines. It is the same with man; if he is not virtuous, he becomes vicious.”

Ifs Men Culture Tree Produce Flower Fruit Covered Virtuous Grain Vicious Fruit Trees

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“There do remain dispersed in the soil of human nature divers seeds of goodness, of benignity, of ingenuity, which, being cherished, excited, and quickened by good culture, do, by common experience, thrust out flowers very lovely, and yield fruits very pleasant of virtue and goodness.”

Humans Culture Common Virtue Human Nature Flower Goodness Fruit Excited Seeds Lovely Pleasant Soil Yield Thrust Benevolence Ingenuity Common Experience

Book:The Sermons and Expository Treatises of Isaac Barrow: With a Life of the Author

Source: The Sermons and Expository Treatises of Isaac Barrow: With a Life of the Author

“Among archetypal images, the Sacred Tree is one of the most widely know symbols on Earth. There are few cultures in which the Sacred Tree does not figure: as an image of the cosmos, as a dwelling place of gods or spirits, as a medium of prophecy and knowledge, and as an agent of metamorphoses when the tree is transformed into human or divine form or when it bears a divine or human image as its fruit or flowers.”

Knows Humans Doe Earth Form Spirit Culture Tree Figures Divine Flower Bears Sacred Fruit Mediums Symbols Agents Cosmos Transformed Prophecy Dwelling Metamorphosis Dwelling Place

Author:Christopher McDowell