Top 100 Quotes About Plants

#1. The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.

Plato

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#2. Be a Gardener. Dig a ditch. Toil and sweat. And turn the earth upside down. And seek the deepness. And water plants in time. Continue this labor. And make sweet floods to run, and noble and abundant fruits to spring. Take this food and drink, and carry it to God as your true worship.

Julian Of Norwich

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#3. Gardeners do first, read later. Why not? Plants are very gracious in accepting an apology.

Janet Macunovich

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#4. Every moment and every event of everyman's life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds, so each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality that come to rest imperceptibly in the minds and wills of men.

Thomas Merton

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#5. Frost interviewing Noel Coward and Margaret Mead. Sir Noel's view of life is Sir Noel. Mead's mind is large and open, like Buckminster Fuller's. She found thoughts dull that suggest that men are superior to animals or plants.

John Cage

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#6. Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

Claude McKay

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#7. It's not true for the plants or the animals. It's not true for the stars or the trees, or for the rest of nature. It's only true for humans.

Miguel Ruiz

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#8. Spring time is nature at its best.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#9. Camera-phones are like nuclear power plants: bad people will turn them into evil, good people will put them to good use.

Philippe Kahn

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#10. Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad to take root in a foreign soil.

Octavio Paz

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#11. A dream is a seed.
Vision plants it.
Imagination nurtures growth.
Opportunities create blooms.
Thoughts become things!

Donna McGoff

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#12. The weather, the plants, the animals, and our human survival are all inextricably linked. The natural elements were at war with one another because we abused our ecosystem. Abused our atmosphere. Abused our animals. Abused our fellow man.

Tahereh Mafi

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#13. Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.

William Blake

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#14. How do people stay in love, anyway? Is it a choice? Or is it like those plants we studied in biology that mutate into something new and totally different but are still part of the same plant family?

Libba Bray

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#15. I adore gardening and plan to take it up properly when I have a bit more time on my hands. Until then, I love pottering in garden centres. I'm totally low maintenance. I don't ask for fancy plants, just basic, long-lasting shrubs that look nice. But I am particular about flowers.

Shilpa Shetty

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#16. The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

Rabindranath Tagore

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#17. One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.

Otto Wallach

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#18. The decoding of the human genome tells us that we are indeed related to the animals, the insects, and the plants, and that, like it or not, Earth is where we belong.

Ian McCallum

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#19. Everybody's got plants, but most are just growing weeds. The cultivated have greater gardens, finer and gaudier gardens.

Peter Schjeldahl

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#20. At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.

Egon Schiele

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#21. I'm going to miss you, girls," he told the plants.
"You have names for them?" croaked Jane.
"This is Beatrice."
"You're not really a people person, are you?"
"Humans piss me off.

Adam Baker

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#22. I am (obviously) much in love with plants and above all trees, and always have been; and I find human maltreatment of them as hard to bear as some find ill-treatment of animals.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#23. Life is everywhere. The earth is throbbing with it - it's like music. The plants, the creatures, the ones we see, the ones we don't see, it's like one, big, pulsating symphony.

Diane Frolov

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#24. If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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#25. Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

John Greenleaf Whittier

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#26. I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business of world wars. Whenever I sank into them I felt free.

Tim Winton

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#27. My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.

Bill Gates

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#28. Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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#29. Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system

Bill Mollison

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#30. A dried plant is nothing but a sign to plant a new one

Priyansh Shah

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#31. Discovering new species is a passion. A day without collecting plants is painful for me.

Corneille Ewango

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#32. He plants to benefit another generation.

Caecilius Statius

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#33. A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design, not the material it is expressed in, and the best designs, like the best poems, make ordinary material significant by its arrangement.

Nan Fairbrother

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#34. Nature grinds all of us. Keep count of the ounce of pleasure you get. In the long run, nature did her work through you, and when you die your body will make other plants grow. Yet we think all the time that we are getting pleasure ourselves. Thus the wheel goes round.

Swami Vivekananda

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#35. Oma says, when we were put on earth a really long time ago, each person came with a plant to heal all the troubles that come later ... We've got Indian balsam, sage, wild rose. We've got juniper berries and honeysuckle. All of them do something different inside, heal things.

J.J. Brown

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#36. We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at all unlikely, but I cannot speak to the fact from my own observation.

Robert Fortune

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#37. So, the point I'm making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it's the job of every congressman and senator is to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests.

Jim DeMint

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#38. The trees are a thousand times taller than me, and hundreds of years older, and the rocks and leaves and plants and animals never do anything silly like kill each other or fall in love or grow up.

Ben Stephenson

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#39. We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

Arnold J. Toynbee

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#40. But our forest is sacred & magical with many unusual creatures & plants.We don't want people to destroy everything!

Magda M. Olchawska

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#41. Never return to a doctor whose office plants have died. After five days in hospital, I took a turn for the nurse.

Spike Milligan

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#42. Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist.

Paula Gunn Allen

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#43. When all the plants in a region are running at full steam, there is simply no way to get more power.

Alex Berenson

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#44. Out of 30,000 edible plants thought to exist on earth, just eleven account for 93% of all that humans eat: oats, corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, yucca (also called tapioca or cassava), sorghum, millet, beans, barley, and rye.

Daniel Levitin

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#45. Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.

John Updike

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#46. No one plants rosebushes for the thorns.

Marty Rubin

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#47. Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.

Gale Norton

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#48. What do you do when you see an endangered animal that eats only endangered plants?

Steven Wright

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#49. It seemed to her that certain parts of the world must produce happiness as they produced peculiar plants which will flourish nowhere else.

Gustave Flaubert

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#50. Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.

Margaret Atwood

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#51. It is a fact that plants also have life like animals. But animals are endowed with mind, and nervous systems too while the plants do not possess the same.

Sathya Sai Baba

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#52. The coal plants that will be built from 2005 to 2030 will release as much carbon dioxide as all of the coal burned since the industrial revolution more than two centuries ago.

Joseph J. Romm

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#53. If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family.

Donna Reed

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#54. What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

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#55. The plants and flowers
I raised about my hut
I now surrender
To the will
Of the wind

Ryokan

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#56. The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.

E. O. Wilson

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#57. While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.

Naoto Kan

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#58. Nature indeed plants the seeds of religion--fear and ignorance; kingcraft and priestcraft water and tend it.

W.G. Pogson Smith

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#59. Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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#60. Plants (like people) thrive when there is balance.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

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#61. Connection with gardens, even small ones, even potted plants, can become windows to the inner life. The simple act of stopping and looking at the beauty around us can be prayer.

Patricia R. Barrett

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#62. Two of the most nutritious plants in the world - lamb's quarters and purslane - are weeds, and some of the healthiest traditional diets, like the Mediterranean, make frequent use of wild greens.

Michael Pollan

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#63. Chance was to work in the garden, where he would care for plants and grasses and trees which grew there peacefully. He would be as one on them: quiet, open hearted in the sunshine and heavy when it rained.

Jerzy Kosinski

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#64. I can grow cameras!" she had shrieked at the Brill brothers during one briefing. "Who's to say that despicable centaur Foaly hasn't succeded in splicing surveillance equiptment to plants? So get rid of all the flowers. Rocks, too. I don't trust them. Sullen little blebers.

Eoin Colfer

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#65. My father could be very distancing. My clearest memory is of him squatting, watering plants for hours and hours at a time, completely silent. He was very self-contained; my mother was more outgoing and chatty and social. I'm certainly more like her.

John Malkovich

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#66. He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

Lucy Larcom

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#67. Plants turn their face to the Sun; Animals, to the ground; and Men, to the darkness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#68. The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.

Asa Gray

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#69. I want my ashes either with some really good primo or as some fertilizer for plants.

Tommy Chong

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#70. Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.

Moses

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#71. I think the decision to make substances like steroids from plants, rather than from animal tissues, was a landmark in the history of medicine as well as the history of chemistry.

Gregory Petsko

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#72. We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that.

Malcolm Turnbull

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#73. 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.

Alan Autry

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#74. Plants can help you they have a very strong vibrational force. If you've made friends with several of them, they will come and aid you when you've reached that critical moment and you're at a crossroads of knowledge.

Frederick Lenz

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#75. It was so quiet in that room I could practically hear the plants growing.

Suzanne Kelman

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#76. Jezreel, God plants!

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#77. Children need encouragement like plants need water

Rudolf Dreikurs

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#78. A good farmer never plants all his seeds in a single piece of land.

Habeeb Akande

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#79. To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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#80. Every morning, arising from the death of sleep, the happy plants and all our fellow animal creatures great and small, and even the rocks, seemed to be shouting, Awake, awake, rejoice, rejoice, come love us and join in our song. Come! Come!

John Muir

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#81. If plants could be credited with reasoning powers, we would marvel at the imaginative ways they bribe or ensnare other creatures to carry out their wishes.

Jane Goodall

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#82. Generation by male and female is a law common to animals and plants.

Herman Boerhaave

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#83. It was at this time I learned that the human mind is a blackened overgrown place. Society tries to mow the lawn and trim back the plants, but every one of us is just days away from a wild jungle. And it's the jungle that interests me.

Marisha Pessl

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#84. Every plant is an individual.
Wrong again. We are not individuals at all, we are all connected. We are individuals the way each blossom on an apple tree is an individual.

Dale Pendell

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#85. It is sparkling light, aromatic plants, a lofty palace, a flowing river, ripe fruit, a beautiful wife and abundant clothing, in an eternal abode of radiant joy, in beautiful soundly-constructed high houses.

Muhammad

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#86. When darkness comes,
stars shine.
When storms come,
plants flourish.
When adversity comes,
champions triumph.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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#87. Folks are like plants; we all lean toward the light.

Kris Carr

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#88. Satan is attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity, and sensuality as the root to attack all of the strong plants that has so deeply rooted in the American tradition.

Rick Santorum

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#89. The history of human use of plants, mushrooms, and animals for their psychedelic effects is far older than written history, and probably predates the appearance of the modern human species.

Rick Strassman

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#90. They were nice enough people and all, but there wasn't much love in them. Because they were too busy being afraid. Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark.

Stephen King

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#91. Each time a woman has the courage to act and share her truth, she plants wonderful seeds. Each such seed offers freedom and power to those around her, and in this way we bring the world closer together and closer to peace.

Jodie Evans

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#92. Always try to grow in your garden some plant or plants out of the ordinary, something your neighbors never attempted. For you can receive no greater flattery than to have a gardener of equal intelligence stand before your plant and ask, "What is that?"

Richardson Wright

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#93. How about no one's ever going to outsell Michael Jackson at selling records because the record industry is over. Game over. There's no more record stores. With no more record stores there's no more pressing plants. With no more pressing plants, there's no more charts.

Will.i.am

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#94. Our sense of community and compassionate intelligence must be extended to all life forms, plants, animals, rocks, rivers, and human beings. This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.

Terry Tempest Williams

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#95. Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling.

Carl Linnaeus

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#96. Seemingly insignificant choices are like seemingly trivial seeds. Once planted, they root and grow and spread into something tremendous. Imagine the prickly weeds some choices amount to over time and be careful not to plant them.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#97. Like plants, so men also grow, some in the light, others in the shadows. There are many who need the shadows and not the light.

C. G. Jung

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#98. We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the last 65 million years. If we don't find answers to these problems, we're gonna be victims of this extinction event that we're at fault for.

Paul Watson

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#99. In a nursery, if you don't take care of those plants, your profits get lost real quickly. You have to weed. You have to water. You have to nurture. Also, you have to take care of your employees in such a way that they do the same.

Jack Dangermond

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#100. We should amuse our evening hours of life in cultivating the tender plants, and bringing them to perfection, before they are transplanted to a happier clime.

George Washington

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