#plant

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#character #consists #consuming #deliberately #describe

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#caring #effort #experience #garden #gardener

We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years before us, not a single plant of major consequence was built. ↗

— Gray Davis

#build #built #consequence #early #earnest

We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves. ↗

— Peter Yarrow

#move #only #ourselves #peace #planting

I'm sort of an old man, always tinkering in the backyard. Since I grew up playing outdoors, I still like to plant things, sit out on the deck, or go hiking. ↗

— Josh Duhamel

#backyard #deck #go #grew #hiking

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. ↗

— Og Mandino

#always #best #do your best #harvest #later

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#contemplation #harvest #plant #reap #shall

And I'm sure after Facebook it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms of our hands and we'll be debating whether we should get them, and then we'll all get them. ↗

— Jesse Eisenberg

#cameras #debating #facebook #get #hands

The beauty of a main title is that you establish your main theme and maybe a bit of your secondary theme. You plant the seed that you're going to go water later in the score. And so, having that removed just made it so much more difficult. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#bit #difficult #establish #go #going

What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#events #here #neither #nor #officer