51. “The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble. And if the tree takes root, it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil....
Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvest reaps. ~A. Bronson Alcott, "The Garden," Tablets, 1868 Observation.— Nevertheless, what a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. ~Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer in a Garden, "What I Know about Gardening: Thir...
57. “The next generation will never be able to understand the joy of planting a tree and watching it grow.”– Nitya Prakash 58. “I’m planting a tree to teach me to gather strength from my deepest roots.”– Andrea Koehle Jones 59. “To be without trees would, in the most litera...
Plants, generally speaking, meet the impact of the terrestrial environment head on, although of course they in turn modify the physical environment by adventitious group activity. The individual plant cannot select its habitat; its location is largely determined by the vagaries of the dispersal of ...
Then what is there about gravitation that should exclude it from consideration also? Newton did not shut out the physical view, but had evidently thought deeply of it; and if he thought of it, why should not we, in these advanced days, do so too?
46. “My feeling was, you plant some seeds. If they grow, great; if they don’t, you don’t take it personally. Not my problem; I just kept planting. Just like a farmer.”– Hank Haney 47. “Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures, since the productions of nature are the mat...
About planting ... Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish author Gardening inspiration: Gardening quotes to motivate you to dig in the dirt … It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the sp...
"There is always something rough and tumble about planting - because with our clumsy implements we must reach from our atmospheric element down into another, down into the darkness of the soil." - Stanley Crawford The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. ...
Most plants taste better when they've had to suffer a little. - Diana Kennedy Cabbage: A vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. - Ambrose Bierce The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between ...
1. “This is called farming! You kids are gonna grow all kinds of plants—vegetable plants, pizza plants. Oh, it’s good to be home!”– Captain B. McCrea 2. “Wait, that doesn’t look like Earth. Where’s the blue sky? Where’s the grass?”– Captain B. McCrea ...