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• The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

  Plato

  Philosophical, Animal, Tree

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• Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.

  Frank Auerbach

  Weed, Teaching, Garden

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• Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together.

  Ovid

  Nature, Science, Sea

  Ovid,, A. D. Melville, E. J. Kenney (2008). “Metamorphoses”, p.1, Oxford University Press

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• Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this lies the difference between all those who create and those who enjoy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Differences, Tree

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• The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed. It exists fully only in the act of being read; and its real home is inside the head of the reader, where the symphony resounds, the seed germinates. A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Real, Book, Home

  "The Faraway Nearby". Book by Rebecca Solnit, June 2013.

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• Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a wrecked seed.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Wrecks, Acorns, Plant

  Hannah Whitall Smith (2011). “God of All Comfort”, p.121, Anamchara Books

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• However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality, like seeds germinating underground, sure to sprout in their search for the sunlight.

  Lin Yutang

  Dream, Reality, Way

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• If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.

  Bodhidharma

  Blessed, Past, Rewards

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.5, Macmillan

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• We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.

  Epictetus

  Greatness, Order, Focus

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• Beauty scatters the seeds of hope in us.

  Joan D. Chittister

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• The future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future we must first look back upon the past. That is where the seeds of the future were planted. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Past, Thinking, Soon Enough

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• I throw fresh seeds out. Who knows what survives?

  Charles Baudelaire

  Knows

  Robert Lowell, Charles Baudelaire (1968). “The Voyage: And Other Versions of Poems”

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• One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when the principle was explained to me: that flowers are the attempt by the plant to reproduce itself. So if you cut the heads off before the flower turns into seeds, the plant will continue to flower.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Jobs, Flower, Cutting

  "The best things in life are..." by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2007.

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• From the seed grows a root, then a sprout; from the sprout, the seedling leaves; from the leaves, the stem; around the stem, the branches; at the top, the flower. . . We cannot say that the seed causes the growth, nor that the soil does. We can say that the potentialities for growth lie within the seed, in mysterious life forces, which, when properly fostered, take on certain forms.

  Mary Caroline Richards

  Lying, Flower, Roots

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• Anyone can cut an apple open and count the number of seeds. But, who can look at a single seed and count the trees and apples?

  Dottie Walters

  Cutting, Apples, Numbers

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• There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There's no wild cows... You list all the fruit, and all the vegetables, and ask yourself, is there a wild counterpart to this? If there is, it's not as large, it's not as sweet, it's not as juicy, and it has way more seeds in it. We have systematically genetically modified all the foods, the vegetables and animals that we have eaten ever since we cultivated them. It's called artificial selection.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Sweet, Animal, Vegetables

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson Tells GMO Critics to 'Chill Out'". Interview with Chris Mooney, www.motherjones.com. July 30, 2014.

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• Don't just throw the seed at the people! Grind it into flour, bake it into bread, and slice it for them. And it wouldn't hurt to put a little honey on it

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hurt, People, Ministry

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• On the whole, my respect for my fellow-men, except as one may outweigh a million, is not being increased these days.... Such do not know that like the seed is the fruit, and that, in the moral world, when good seed is planted, good fruit is inevitable, and does not depend on our watering and cultivating; that when you plant, or bury, a hero in his field, a crop of heroes is sure to spring up. This is a seed of such force and vitality, that it does not ask our leave to germinate.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Hero, Men

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• You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree — the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men.

  Chinua Achebe

  Greatness, Men, Yams

  Chinua Achebe (2011). “No Longer at Ease”, p.58, Anchor

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• However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable.

  Eric Hoffer

  Life, Believe, Eye

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

  Harry S. Truman

  Patriotic, Fate, Destiny

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• We must find our way back to true nature. We must set ourselves to the task of revitalizing the earth. Regreening the earth, sowing seeds in the desert--that is the path society must follow.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Sowing, Tasks, Desert

  Masanobu Fukuoka (2013). “Sowing Seeds in the Desert: Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security”, p.16, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• The blood of Christians is seed.

  Tertullian

  Christian, Blood

  Tertullian, Robert Sider (2001). “Christian and Pagan in the Roman Empire”, p.69, CUA Press

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• We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another, and no sunrise finds us where left by sunset. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of that tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind to be scattered.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Heart, Sunset

  Khalil Gibran, “The Farewell XXVIIi”

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• Observe and contemplate on the hidden things of life: how a man's seed is but the beginning, it takes others to bring it to fruition. Think how food undergoes such changes to produce health and strength. See the power of these hidden things which, like the wind cannot been seen, but its effects can be.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Thinking, Wind

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