A weed is but an unloved flower.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
It is easier to tell a person what life is not, rather than to tell them what it is. A child understands weeds that grow from lack of attention, in a garden. However, it is hard to explain the wild flowers that one gardener calls...
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Shannon L. Alder
The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.
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Vera Nazarian
You don’t have to do it all. If unrushing your life feels overwhelming or impossible, consider that it is impossible for you. That’s why we need God. Where you can’t, He already has.
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Lara Casey
The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find...
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Michael Pollan
More Quotes By Luther Burbank
Justice, love, truth, peace and harmony, a serene unity with science and the laws of the universe.
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.
The integrity of one's own mind is of infinitely more value than adherence to any creed or system. We must choose between a dead faith belonging to the past and a living, growing ever-advancing science belonging to the future.
I am an infidel today. I do not believe what has been served to me to believe. I am a doubter, a questioner, a skeptic. When it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death,...
Most people’s religion is what they want to believe, not what they do believe.
