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People ask what gives me the authority to give advice? I say, First of all, I don't give advice. Dr Phil gives advice. Mr T… — Unknown Author
Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I want to be reborn as a tree; that way I can plant my roots down, never move and can never be separated from the… — Unknown Author
If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today. — Unknown Author
I would like to start by emphasizing the importance of surfaces. It is at a surface where many of our most interesting and useful phenomena… — Unknown Author
Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb. — Hans Arp
I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely andentirely from an independent study of the… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
As soon as we touch the complex processes that go on in a living thing, be it plant or animal, we are at once forced… — John Jacob Abel
Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out especially-a translation of Hofmeister's epoch-making… — Unknown Author
If A denotes one of the two constant traits, for example, the dominating one, a the recessive, and the Aa the hybrid form in which… — Gregor Mendel
In this generation, along with the dominating traits, the recessive ones also reappear, their individuality fully revealed, and they do so in the decisively expressed… — Gregor Mendel
My experiments with single traits all lead to the same result: that from the seeds of hybrids, plants are obtained half of which in turn… — Gregor Mendel
When two plants, constantly different in one or several traits, are crossed, the traits they have in common are transmitted unchanged to the hybrids and… — Gregor Mendel
Increased knowledge of heredity means increased power of control over the living thing, and as we come to understand more and more the architecture of… — Unknown Author
Nothing serves life and soundness of body so well, nor is so necessary as the smoke of the royal plant, tobacco. — Unknown Author
I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by… — Michel de Montaigne
Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid;… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Life is an endless, truly endless struggle. There's no time when we're going to arrive at a plateau where the whole thing gets sorted. It's… — Arthur Miller
Our intentions - noticed or unnoticed, gross or subtle contribute either to our suffering or to our happiness. Intentions are sometimes called seeds. The garden… — Gil Fronsdal
250,000 species of plants and animals recorded and deposited in museums throughout the world did not support the gradual unfolding hoped for by Darwin. — David M. Raup
You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is like a plant: It must be watered daily with giving thoughts and actions. — Goswami Kriyananda
It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of teaching have not yet entirely strangled that sacred spirit of curiosity and inquiry, for… — Albert Einstein
Every day after lunch when I was writing my first book, I'd nibble a square of fine chocolate and meditate on all that had gone… — Laura Hillenbrand
You have to appreciate every single day that you're alive. Life is a little bit like a garden - you have to find time to… — Oscar de la Renta

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