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The clear light of science teaches us that we must be our own saviors, if we are to be found worth saving.
No doubt these rocky islands have suggested the idea worked out in gardens, and they have been well imitated.
What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.
Fish must swim thrice--once is the water, a second time in the sauce, and a third time in wine in the stomach.
I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.
It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border.
A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.
If a person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds.
When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.
The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions.
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
Yes, social friend, I love thee well, In learned doctor's spite; Thy clouds all other clouds dispel And lap me in delight.
I never think it necessary to repeat calumnies; they are sparks, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves.
We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.
He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.
Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.
I have learned from Nature that dependence on unnatural beliefs weakens us in the struggle and shortens our breath for the race.
Linnea.... A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space - from Linnaeus who resembles it.
No matter how widely you have travelled, you haven't seen the world if you have failed to look into the human hearts that inhabit it.
The roots and herbes beaten and put into new ale or beer and daily drunk, cleareth, strengtheneth and quickeneth the sight of the eyes.
No man ought to commit his life into the hands of that Physician, who is ignorant of Astrologic: because he is a Physician of no value.
Artificial manures lead inevitably to artificial nutrition, artificial food, artificial animals and finally to artificial men and women.
Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis of religion.
Yes, it is true that there are times when you do wonder if things are worth it but usually those moments pass as soon as they have come.
The first thing you should do when you get up is read the obituaries. You never know when you'll see a name that will just make your day.
Of course it must, and our scientific men must be criticized boldly. They will not feel comfortable when you and I are through with them.
What is the use of assuring Fundamentalists that science is compatible with religion. They retort at once, Certainly not with our religion.
There is no generation from an egg in the Mineral Kingdom. Hence no vascular circulation of the humours as in the remaining Natural Kingdoms.
Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education.
Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.
Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . .
This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal death with Agassiz.
Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course.
Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The fact is, he is very much annoyed by it.
The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy with everything that is.
Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?
Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win.
He that buys land buys many stones, He that buys flesh buys many bones, He that buys eggs buys many shells, But he that buys good ale buys nothing else.
Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.
We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain extent the formation of wood and leaves.
I know some people who never have any difficulties to speak of. The moment I understood your premisses, I felt sure you had a real foundation to hold on.
Time is not money; time is an opportunity to live before you die. So a man who walks, and lives and sees and thinks as he walks, has lengthened his life.
I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them, and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study of plants themselves.
However, when it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until then, no.