#plant

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

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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. ↗

— B. C. Forbes

#autumn #faithfully #farmer #harvest #only

Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us. ↗

— Jim Fowler

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Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded. ↗

— Jim Fowler

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Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

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Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#cut #flowers #giving #grow #ineffective

The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world. ↗

— John Strachan

#awakened #churches #civilized #civilized world #death

A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant. ↗

— Adam Lambert

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The Indian Corn, or Maiz, proves the most useful Grain in the World; and had it not been for the Fruitfulness of this Species, it would have proved very difficult to have settled some of the Plantations in America. ↗

— John Lawson

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