Perennial Quotes
97 quotes by 85 authors
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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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Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
— Wendell Berry
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
— Wendell Berry
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
— Edmund Burke
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We will not regard any great power as necessarily right in a given dispute unless we are convinced of this, yet at the same time…
— Errol Barrow
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For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about…
— Hal Borland
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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.
— George Santayana
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Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.
— Max Ehrmann
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This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of every…
— Winston Churchill
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At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift-a practical map for the perennial quest for a…
— Daniel Goleman
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Meditation upon the unknown Thought He thought was real meditation. No, meditation is not and cannot be On any thought. Meditation is a conscious withdrawal…
— Sri Chinmoy
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We ask the Blessed Virgin for the gift of conversion for all Christians, so that they may announce and give a faithful and coherent witness…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The Eucharist is the full realization of the worship which humanity owes to God, and it cannot be compared to any other religious experience.... The…
— Pope John Paul II
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Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for many weighty causes,…
— John Evelyn
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My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to commune with the spirit of the universe, to be intoxicated with the fumes, call it,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The perennial gale of creative destruction
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
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Daily meditation keeps me sane. I memorize prayers or poems that express my highest spiritual ideals, and quietly, word for word, go through the prayer…
— Ashley Judd
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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.
— Bertrand Russell
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Generations will continue to meet the same fate unless the perennial oppressor-Britain-is removed, for she will unashamedly and mercilessly continue to maintain her occupation and…
— Bobby Sands
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