Sara Bonnett Stein famous quotes

It's the flock, the grove, that matters. Our responsibility is to species, not to specimens; to communities, not to individuals.
-- Sara Bonnett Stein

#Friendship #Responsibility #Community

I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error.
-- Sara Bonnett Stein

#Flower #Garden #Thinking

A weed is a plant that is not only in the wrong place, but intends to stay.
-- Sara Bonnett Stein

#Weed #Garden #Plant

A digging fork is a stout, short-handled tool with four flat tines about a foot long.... for weeding I use it delicately to nudge the soil loose from roots without breaking them.
-- Sara Bonnett Stein

#Weed #Roots #Feet

If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.

Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go.

When a Krishna Conscious person is elevated to a responsible position, he never becomes puffed up. Just like a tree when over-laden with fruits becomes humble and lower down. Similarly, a great soul in Krishna Consciousness becomes humbler than the grass and bowed down like the fruitful trees because a Krishna Conscious person acts as the agent of Krishna, therefore he discharges his duty with great responsibility.

You want to come in and prove yourself early. Obviously, it is a responsibility being drafted that high to come in and play well and to make an impact. If not, youre going to get cut. So you have to come in, make the team, have an impact and do something special. And I feel that, obviously, internally. I feel an obligation to myself to do that but obviously the organization, the fans, this community. I mean, they dont want to see a first-round draft pick be a bust, so I feel I have to come in and hopefully make an impact early.

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

The extent to which YOU take responsibility over something is the extent to which YOU take control over it.

It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ's Church to one's own little community. It is everywhere, in all parts of the world; and whatever its external form, frequently changing, often impure, yet the gifts wherever received increase our riches.

...we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.

The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute for them the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood.

The state is a means to an end. Its end lies in the preservation and advancement of a community of physically and psychically homogenous creatures.