Desire Quote by Robert Collier

First the stalk — then the roots. First the need — then the means to satisfy that need . First the nucleus — then…

— Robert Collier

“First, by what means it is that a Plant, or any Part of it, comes to Grow, a Seed to put forth a Root…

— Nehemiah Grew

All things must come to its roots from where it is planted.

— Teresa of Avila

All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first, and slowest,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Thus nature provides a system for proportioning the growth of plants that satisfies the three canons of architecture. All modules are isotropic and they…

— Jay Kappraff

Though leaves are many, the root is one.

— William Butler Yeats

A root, a stem, a leaf, some means of capturing sunlight and air and making food - in sum, a plant. The green substance…

— Hal Borland

The most important sentence in a good book is the first one; it will contain the organic seed from which all that follows will…

— Paul Horgan

Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves.

— Confucius

Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

- Growth has its season. There are spring and summer, but there are also fall and winter. And then spring and summer again. As…

— Jerzy Kosinski

You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson