“The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. While I was conducting experiments to make spineless cacti, I often talked to the plants. . . . "You have nothing to fear," I would tell them. "You don't need your defensive thorns. I will protect you." Gradually the useful plant of the desert emerged in a thornless variety.” LoveNeedsSecretProtectPlantExperimentsVarietyDesertThornsBreedingProtect YouConductingScientific KnowledgeCactusSpineless Author:Luther Burbank
“Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.” MaySecretLordMankindSacredPlantBetrayVocationGardenerDesolateSecret Garden Book:Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion Source: Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion
“The interpretations of science do not give us this intimate sense of objects as the interpretations of poetry give it; they appeal to a limited faculty, and not to the whole man. It is not Linnaeus or Cavendish or Cuvier who gives us the true sense of animals, or water, or plants, who seizes their secret for us, who makes us participate in their life; it is Shakspeare [sic] … Wordsworth … Keats … Chateaubriand … Senancour.” MenGivingWholePoetryWaterAnimalSecretObjectsPlantAppealsIntimateFacultyInterpretationWordsworthLinnaeus Book:Essays in Criticism Source: Essays in Criticism
“This week the Obama administration warned China to remove its secret agents from the U.S. Then in the middle of Obama's announcement a plant behind him got up and walked away.” SecretBehindsWeekMiddlePlantChinaAgentsAdministrationRemoveAnnouncementsSecret Agent Author:Jimmy Fallon
“Hostess Bakery plants shut down due to a workers' strike. It was split up. The State Department hired all the Twinkies, the Secret Service hired all the HoHos, the generals are sleeping with the Cupcakes and the voters sent all the Ding Dongs to Congress.” StatesSleepSecretPlantWorkersCongressDuesStrikesDepartmentVotersSplitsCupcakesSecret ServiceHostessesBakeries Author:Argus Hamilton