“Once we become interested in the progress of the plants in our care, their development becomes a part of the rhythm of our own lives and we are refreshed by it.” CareProgressDevelopmentGardenPlantRhythmGarden Love Book:MAKING THINGS GROW Source: MAKING THINGS GROW
“At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty I'll have made more progress. At ninety I'll have penetrated the mystery of things. At a hundred I shall have reached something marvellous, but when I am a hundred and ten everything I do, the smallest dot, will be alive.” LittlesMadeRealThreeAnimalAliveProgressMysteryTenBirdHundredStructurePlantFishesSmallestSeventiesInsectsNinetyEightyDotsMarvellous Author:Hokusai
“The record of the rocks contains very little, other than bacteria and one-celled plants until, about a billion years ago, after some three billion years of invisible progress, a major breakthrough occurred. The first many-celled creatures appeared on earth.” YearsFirstsLittlesEarthThreeRecordsProgressRocksCreaturesMajorsYears AgoPlantBillionsInvisibleBreakthroughBacteria Author:Robert Jastrow
“The finest flowers are those transplanted, for transplanting means difficulty, a readjusting to new conditions, and through the effort put forth to find adjustment does the plant progress.” MeanDoeEffortProgressConditionsFlowerDifficultyPlantFinestAdjustment Book:Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great ... Source: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great ...
“We've continued progress in the six months since Trump got elected, and the good thing about what we're doing is that success begets success. As we bring down greenhouse gases, for example, we've closed half of the coal-fired power plants in the country in recent years. There's more impetus to try to close the other half because you can see that it is working. So, you know, I had hoped that Trump would not do that, and it doesn't make any sense to me, but regardless, it is not as cataclysmic as it could be.” TryingCountryProgressGood ThingsPlant Author:Michael Bloomberg
“The Soviets held to the tradition of colonialism. They raped the country and killed many people. But they also built dams, electrical power plants, streets, and technical schools. They were communists and had the same vision for Afghanistan that Stalin and Lenin had for the Soviet Union: Progress is communism plus electrification. And today? Today Kabul gets its electrical power from Uzbekistan, Herat from Iran and Jalalabad from Pakistan.” PeopleCountryTodaySchoolVisionProgressTraditionPlantCommunismCommunistAfghanistanSovietSoviet UnionElectrical Author:Ahmed Rashid