Perennial Quotes

97 quotes by 85 authors

Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops. — Margaret Atwood
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
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
Falsehood is a perennial spring. — Edmund Burke
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
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
Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble. — George Santayana
Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass. — Max Ehrmann
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The perennial gale of creative destruction — Joseph A. Schumpeter
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
Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived. — Bertrand Russell
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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