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A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year. – Dixie Lee Ray
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. – Greek proverb
All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. – Carl Gustav Jung
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. – George Washington
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. – Robert Louis Stephenson
Have you ever felt a desert-like lonliness, facing all the lions, hyenas and snakes of your imagination, with no weapon, no partner, nothing but silent, ugly, harmful aloe vera plants all around you? Giving up will only means death, while fighting, means death too.. – The wise Pharoah Moe
If you are planning for a year, sow rice if you are planning for a decade, plant trees if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. – Chinese Proverb
If you water a plant with poison it will embrace it and flower accordingly or die. – Terpsichore Lindeman
It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. – Albert Einstein
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old. – Charles Caleb Colton
Jesus' ministry was clearly defined, and the alternatives to the illusion and temptations of the desert were spelled out. A choice was made--life abundant, full, and free for all. Make no mistake about it, the day that choice was made, Jesus became suspect. That day in the temple he sealed the fate already prepared for him. How was the world to understand one who rejected an offer of power and control – Joan B. Campbell
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil – Golda Meir
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. – Nelson Henderson
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. – George Washington
When life gives you lemons, you don’t make lemonade. You use the seeds to plant a whole orchard and build a new lemonade brand… an entire franchise. Or you could just stay on the bus and drink lemonade someone else has made, from a can. – Anthon St Maarten
When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change. – Thich Nhat Hanh
Nicky A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you're talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who's gonna come along in that time Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all f*in' night. – Casino**
All sunshine makes a desert. – Arabic Proverb
I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear When was I less by dying – Jalal ud-Din Rumi
For the desert, a camel is better than a horse. - On Situational Leadership; Stamina vs. Speed – Med Jones
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. – Greek Proverb
All sunshine makes the desert. – Arab Proverb
A beautiful morning is not a guarantee for a beautiful afternoon! Just like a man of desert appreciates water, value well whatever beauty you have now! – Mehmet Murat ildan
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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