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323/366 Seedheads, 5

18 Wednesday Nov 2020

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If all seeds that fall were to grow, then no one could follow
the path under the trees. ~ Nigerian proverb

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264/366 Seedheads, 1

20 Sunday Sep 2020

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‘The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.’
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Chapter 6: Nature, Essays, Second Series, 1844.

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300/365 Next year’s wildflowers

27 Sunday Oct 2019

Posted by sconzani in autumn, nature, plants, wildflowers

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‘For me, wildflowers are joy-giving. They have enriched my life and fed my soul and given beautiful memories to sustain me.’  ~  Lady Bird Johnson letter in National Wildflower Research Center report ‘The First Ten Years: 1983-1993’

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A seed waits

10 Wednesday Oct 2018

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‘A seed knows how to wait. Most seeds wait for at least a year before starting to grow; a cherry seed can wait for a hundred years with no problem. What exactly each seed is waiting for is known only to that seed. Some unique trigger-combination of temperature-moisture-light and many other things is required to convince a seed to jump off the deep end and take its chance – to take its one and only chance to grow.’
~ Hope Jahren, Lab Girl

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One for the rock …

07 Tuesday Nov 2017

Posted by sconzani in autumn, flowers, nature, plants

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‘One for the rock, one for the crow, one to die, and one to grow.’
~ an old English saying

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The seeds of success

26 Tuesday Sep 2017

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‘The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.’
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The seed is hope

08 Monday Aug 2016

Posted by sconzani in flowers, nature, plants

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‘From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.’ ~ Aeschylus

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‘Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.’ ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

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‘To see things in the seed, that is genius.’ ~ Lao Tzu

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‘Everyone who enjoys thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed. — Herein lies the difference between them that create and them that enjoy.’ ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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‘Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.’ ~ Henry David Thoreau

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