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“From the sexual, or amatorial, generation of plants new varieties, or improvements, are frequently obtained; as many of the young plants from seeds are dissimilar to the parent, and some of them superior to the parent in the qualities we wish to possess... Sexual reproduction is the chef d'oeuvre, the master-piece of nature.”

Young Science Wish Parent Quality Pieces Generations Masters Evolution Plant Seeds Improvement Superiors Variety Chef Reproduction

Book:The essential writings of Erasmus Darwin

Source: The essential writings of Erasmus Darwin

“I wish that every child could have growing space because I think children are a little like plants. If they grow too close together, they become thin and sickly and never obtain maximum growth. We need room to grow.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Children Littles Together Wish Grows Growth Space Rooms Growing Plant Maximum

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“All my plans in private life; all my pursuits; all my designs, wishes, and thoughts, have this one great object in view: the overthrow of the ruffian Boroughmongers. If I write grammars; if I write on agriculture; if I sow, plant, or deal in seeds; whatever I do has first in view the destruction of those infamous tyrants.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Wish Views Deals Plans Design Objects Destruction Plant Seeds Pursuit Tyrants Agriculture Grammar Private Life Infamous Ruffian

Author:William Cobbett

“As a person, when I was seven or eight, my dad would try very hard to tutor me through school because I had learning difficulties or whatever. I would wish that they could just plant a chip in my brain so that I would know everything and not have to study.”

Knows Trying Persons Hard School Wish Brain Study Dad Difficulty Plant Seven My Dad Eight Chips Tutor

Author:Dichen Lachman

“You believe In God, for your part?--that He who makes Can make good things from ill things, best from worst, As men plant tulips upon dunghills when They wish them finest.”

Men Believe Wish Worst Good Things Plant Ill Believe In God Finest

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“If plants could be credited with reasoning powers, we would marvel at the imaginative ways they bribe or ensnare other creatures to carry out their wishes.”

Ifs Way Wish Creatures Plant Reasoning Imaginative Bribe

Author:Jane Goodall

“Your fervent wishes can only find fulfillment if you succeed in attaining love and understanding of men, and animals, and plants, and stars, so that every joy becomes your joy and every pain your pain.”

Ifs Men Pain Joy Wish Stars Understanding Animal Succeed Plant Fulfillment Fervent

Book:Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

“Do not judge God's world from your own. Trim your own hedge as you wish and plant your flowers in the patterns you can understand, but do not judge the garden of nature from your little window box.”

World Littles Wish Advice Judging Flower Garden Window Plant Patterns Boxes Do Not Judge

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“One cannot use with impunity the different categories of beings-animals, plants, the natural elements-simply as one wishes, according to economic needs. One must take into account the nature of each being and its mutual connection in an ordered system, which is the cosmos.”

Needs Different Use Wish Natural Animal Economic Elements Connections Accounts Plant Environmental Cosmos Mutual Categories Stewardship Impunity Natural Elements

Author:Pope John Paul II

“You feel that no matter what's said in the music or how pointed it may get, the most you can wish for is that it plants a few seeds.”

Feels May Said Matter Wish No Matter What Plant Seeds

Author:Eddie Vedder