“In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.”

— Albert Schweitzer

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Albert Schweitzer 126

French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosoph… 1875–1965

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Variant: There is nothing you can see that is not a flower;
There is nothing you can think that is not the moon.