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“Can I pay any higher tribute to a man [George Gaylord Simpson] than to state that his work both established a profession and sowed the seeds for its own revision? If Simpson had reached final truth, he either would have been a priest or would have chosen a dull profession. The history of life cannot be a dull profession.”

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Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece.”

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Author:David Bayles

“In the chequered area of human experience the seasons are all mingled as in the golden age: fruit and blossom hang together; in the same moment the sickle is reaping and the seed is sprinkled; one tends the green cluster and another treads the wine-press. Nay, in each of our lives harvest and spring-time are continually one, until Death himself gathers us and sows us anew in his invisible fields.”

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Book:Daniel Deronda

Source: Daniel Deronda

“The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed; and those other streams, the life-currents that ebb and flow in human hearts, pulsate to the same great needs, the same great loves and terrors. As our thought follows close in the slow wake of the dawn, we are impressed with the broad sameness of the human lot, which never alters in the main headings of its history--hunger and labour, seed-time and harvest, love and death.”

Source: Romola: Top Novelist Focus

“We are mere journeymen, planting seeds for someone else to harvest.”

People Life Humans Plant Mere Seeds Novelists Harvest Planting Seeds

Book:Infants of the spring: a novel

Source: Infants of the spring: a novel