Susun Weed famous quotes

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  • I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.

  • May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.

  • It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.

  • Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.

  • The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.

  • While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

  • A good gardener looks at every plant every day.

  • Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant.

  • It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend.

  • As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.