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Thought For the Day: If We Had Paid No More Attention To Our Plants Than We Have Our Children, We Would Now Be Living In A Jungle of Weeds
“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 weeds.” – Luther Burbank, horticulturist (7 Mar 1849-1926)
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Tagged Attention, Children, Jungle, Live, Luther Burbank, Paid, Plants, Thought For the Day, Weeds
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Thought For the Day: To the Size of the State There Is A Limit, As There Is To Plants, Animals and Implements For None of These Retain Their Facility When They Are Too Large
“To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large.” – Aristotle (384-322 BC)
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Tagged Animals, Aristotle, Facility, Implements, Limit, Plants, Retain, Size, State, Thought For the Day, Too Large
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Thought For the Day: No Tree Becomes Rooted and Sturdy Unless Many A Wind Assails It
“No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.” – … Continue reading
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Tagged Assail, Fragile Trees, Grip, Grown, Plants, Rooted, Roots, Securely, Seneca the Younger, Sturdy, Sunny Valley, Thought For the Day, Tighten, Tossing, Wind
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Extinction’s Line
We are, or appear to be at a defining time as to how the future of the earth will be. The records are clear that even the most familiar of the common birds, let alone the rarer ones, are dying … Continue reading
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Tagged Avian, Bird, Bird Count, Canary, Choice, Coal Mine, Define, Disappear, Earth, Extinction, Finch, Global, Habitat, Line, Nowhere, Once Voice, Photograph, Plants, Poem, Poetry, Pollinate, Recover, Recovery, Silent, Song, Sparrow, Speak, Species, Walk, Years
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First Principles: God Has Planted the Love of Freedom In Every Human That Is Impatient of Oppression and Seeks Deliverance
“In every human Beast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.“ – Phillis Wheatley
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Tagged Deliverance, Every, First Principles, God, Human, Impatient, Love of Freedom, Oppression, Pant, Phillis Wheatley, Plants, Principle
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Thought For the Day: Our Children Require Mindful Cultivation To Grow Best
“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 weeds.” – Luther Burbank, horticulturist (7 Mar 1849-1926)
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Tagged Attention, Children, Humanity, Jungle, Luther Burbank, Paid, Plants, Thought For the Day, Weeds
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Thought For the Day: Children Require Nurturing and Cultivation
“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 weeds.” – Luther Burbank, horticulturist (7 Mar 1849-1926)
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Tagged Attention, Children, Cultivation, Jungle, Luther Burbank, Neglect, Nurturing, Plants, Thought For the Day, Weeds
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