#seeds

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced. ↗

— Terence McKenna

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Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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