If all seeds that fall were to grow, then no one could follow
the path under the trees. ~ Nigerian proverb
323/366 Seedheads, 5
18 Wednesday Nov 2020
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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.
300/365 Next year’s wildflowers
27 Sunday Oct 2019
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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’
A seed waits
10 Wednesday Oct 2018
‘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
One for the rock …
07 Tuesday Nov 2017
‘One for the rock, one for the crow, one to die, and one to grow.’
~ an old English saying
The seeds of success
26 Tuesday Sep 2017
Posted in autumn, nature, plants, wildflowers
‘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
The seed is hope
08 Monday Aug 2016
‘From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.’ ~ Aeschylus
‘Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.’ ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
‘To see things in the seed, that is genius.’ ~ Lao Tzu
‘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
‘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
