Beginnings Quote by Matshona Dhliwayo

“It is from small seeds that big forests rise.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Each day the sun shone, the birds lingered, though the trees were turning, purely out of habit, and their rose and yellow and rust…

— Elizabeth Enright

“The tallest tree bespeaks its origin through the seed it once was.”

— Monika Ajay Kaul

“When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice that it is small, but we do not criticize it as "rootless and…

— W. Timothy Gallwey

“garden was inside a white picket fence. Most of the rosebushes had small buds on them. Some had early blossoms. The bushes were planted…

— Ron Roy

“Then birds flew up like a shower of sparks, I followed them with my eyes and saw how they rose in a single breath,…

— Franz Kafka

“It is not the size of a seed, but the size of what rises from it.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Never despise a seed; one day it will rise and bloom into a forest.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The bud of a rose grows in darkness. It knows nothing of the sun, yet it pushes at the darkness that confines it until…

— Donna Woolfolk Cross

“At the end of my dream, Eve put the apple back on the branch. The tree went back into the ground. It became a…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“...a new day was starting, the things of the garden were not concerned with our troubles. A blackbird ran across the rose-garden to the…

— Daphne du Maurier

“We came to meadows full of flowers. We saw and realized that they were there, but we had no feelings about them. The first…

— Viktor Frankl