Harvest Quotes - Page 19

• On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.

  Alexander Pope

  Blow, Snow, December

  Alexander Pope (1729). “The Dunciad: With Notes Variorum, and the Prolegomena of Scriblerus”, p.61

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• The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Intelligence, Doe, Use

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• Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.

  Margaret Mead

  Spring, Lying, Winter

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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• Oh, I have walked in Kansas Through many a harvest field, And piled the sheaves of glory there And down the wild rows reeled: Each sheaf a little yellow sun, A heap of hot-rayed gold; Each binder like Creation's hand To mold suns, as of old.

  Vachel Lindsay

  Hands, Yellow, Kansas

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• Pale amber sunlight falls across The reddening October trees.... Are we not better and at home In dreamful Autumn, we who deem No harvest joy is worth a dream? A little while and night shall come, A little while, then, let us dream.

  Ernest Dowson

  Dream, Fall, Home

  Ernest Dowson (2015). “The Poems of Ernest Dowson”, p.51, Read Books Ltd

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• The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb; But God's time is our harvest time, And that is sure to come.

  John L. Bates

  Strong, Harvest Time, Years

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• Solitary reading will enable a man to stuff himself with information, but without conversation his mind will become like a pond without an outlet-a mass of unhealthy stag-nature. It is not enough to harvest knowledge by study; the wind of talk must winnow it and blow away the chaff. Then will the clear, bright grains of wisdom be garnered, for our own use or that of others.

  William Matthews

  Reading, Knowledge, Blow

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• A man follows the path laid out for him. He does his duty to God and his King. He does what he must do, not what pleases him. God's truth, boy, what kind of world would this be if every man did what pleased him alone? Who would plough the fields and reap the harvest, if every man had the right to say, 'I don't want to do that.' In this world there is a place for every man, but every man must know his place.

  Wilbur Smith

  Kings, Men, Boys

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• There is continual spring, and harvest there Continual, both meeting at one time: For both the boughs do laughing blossoms bear, And with fresh colours deck the wanton prime, And eke attonce the heavy trees they climb, Which seem to labour under their fruits load: The whiles the joyous birds make their pastime Amongst the shady leaves, their sweet above, And their true loves without suspicion tell abroad.

  Edmund Spenser

  Sweet, Time, Spring

  1590 Of the Garden of Adonis. The Faerie Queen, bk.3, canto 6, stanza 42.

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• Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.

  Novalis

  Soil, Poor, Modest

  Motto for "Pollen and Fragments" by Novalis, 1798.

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• That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields - harvests grace with joy.

  Aberjhani

  Strength, Perseverance, Angel

  Luther E. Vann, Aberjhani (2008). “Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love”, p.117, Bright Skylark Book Products

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• Someone who bears a grudge while he prays is like a person who sows in the sea and expects to reap a harvest.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Christian, Sea, Bears

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• There is more joy in heaven over a converted sinner than over a righteous person standing firm. A leader in battle has more love for a soldier who returns after fleeing, and who valiantly pursues the enemy, than for one who never turned back, but who never acted valiantly either. A farmer has greater love for land which bears fruitfully, after he has cleared it of thorns, than for land which never had thorns but which never yielded a fruitful harvest.

  Pope Gregory I

  Land, Joy, Leader

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• Gardening can be a compelling cooperative activity. Your best harvest may be the pleasure you get from working with family and friends. There's never a shortage of things to do, no limit to the lessons that can be learned, especially for children, and there's always plenty of credit to go around, even for the mistakes.

  Steven Wilson

  Friendship, Children, Mistake

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• Genesis 8:22 As long as the earth endures, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will never cease. I believe [without evidence] that is the infallible word of God and that's the way it is going to be for his creation. The earth will end only when God declares its time to be over. Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be destroyed by a flood.

  John Shimkus

  Summer, Believe, Winter

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• The world is only one poor harvest away from chaos. We are so close to the edge that politically destabilising food prices could come at any time

  Robert Zoellick

  World, Chaos, Poor

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• It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

  Margaret Fuller

  Ambitious, Genius, Admiration

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.110

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• I grew up in a farming family. I hated cleaning out the chickens but loved hatching them and feeding the new born sheep. The smell of hot milk still has a special resonance for me. Harvest was back-breaking work, though... Where do you think Jesus got his biceps from?

  Joseph Mawle

  Jesus, Thinking, Sheep

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• This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.

  Jean Froissart

  Home, Mean, Cutting

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• . . . it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself it is needful that you frame the season of your own harvest.

  William Shakespeare

  Roots, Weather, Fairness

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Reed, George Steevens (1806). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.198

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• It's ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with abundance have nothing left for themselves.

  Cesar Chavez

  Vegetables, Justice, Diversity

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.352, Penguin

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• The seasons don't matter to most of us anymore except as spectacles. In my county and in many places around this part of the nation, the fair that once marked the harvest now takes place in late August, while tourist dollars are still in heavy circulation. Why celebrate the harvest when you harvest every week with a shopping cart?

  Bill McKibben

  Time, Shopping, August

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• Natural history is a matter of observation; it is a harvest which you gather when and where you find it growing. Birds and squirrels and flowers are not always in season, but philosophy we have always with us. It is a crop which we can grow and reap at all times and in all places and it has its own value and brings its own satisfaction.

  John Burroughs

  Philosophy, Flower, Science

  John Burroughs (2008). “Under the Apple-Trees”, p.5, Wildside Press LLC

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• More and more of out colleagues fail to understand our work because of the high specialization of research problems. We must not be discouraged if the products of our labor are not read or even known to exist. The joy of research must be found in doing since every other harvest is uncertain.

  Theobald Smith

  Hard Work, Science, Joy

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• I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.

  Pablo Neruda

  Hands, Color, Laughing

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