"If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden;
if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree." »English proverb
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"The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose plant it this afternoon'" »John F. Kennedy
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"plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give." »Anthony Norvell
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"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
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"What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"If you water a plant with poison it will embrace it and flower accordingly or die." »Terpsichore Lindeman
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"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." »Robert Louis Stephenson
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"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." »Greek Proverb
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"Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom." »William Pitt
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"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit." »Greek proverb
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"Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom." »Johnson
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"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit." »Nelson Henderson
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"I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some." »Herbert Rappaport
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"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." »Martin Luther
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"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines." »Frank Lloyd Wright
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"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
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"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." »George Washington
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"Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old." »Phillip Chesterfield
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"By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top." »Saskya Pandita
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"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings." »Frank Lloyd Wright
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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
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"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
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"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 grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." »George Washington
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"Time will come; we will plant trees to other planets! I see the orange trees and the cherries in the far lands beyond the earth." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind." »Abraham Lincoln
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"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
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"The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises." »Dr.
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"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
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"An understanding heart is everything in 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 Jung
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