The student of Nature wonders the more and is astonished the less, the more conversant he becomes with her operations; but of all ...the perennial miracles she offers to his inspection, perhaps the most worthy of admiration is the development of a plant or of an animal from its embryo.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What do we plant when we plant the tree? We plant the ship that will cross the sea,... We plant the mast to carry the sails, We plant the planks to withstand the gales-- The keel, the keelson, and beam and knee-- We plant the ship when we plant the tree.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of depar...ture which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Evolution was in a strange mood when that creation came along.... It makes one wonder just where the plant world leaves off and th...e animal world begins.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I focus on my role as plant manager I can't help the fact that I'm a black, woman plant manager. I have to make the ... decisions ...... my job requires.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great th...inker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost ...like to try to say it all in a single word.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an... inexorable process of adaptation; certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it: he cannot grow or mature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of fri...volous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease. Though its root gro...ws old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground, yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth branches like a young plant. But mortals die, and are laid low; humans expire, and where are they?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »