Quotes for All
There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and a fruit tree or two. Those families will be fortunate who, in the last days, have an adequate supply of food because of their foresight and ability to produce their … Read more
I’m the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me Frank Herbert
The City’s going to be very very beautiful! Its going to be like a beautiful beautiful park in some places, and there in the lower level where the river flows right through the City there’s going to be these beautiful trees growing on both sides, fruit trees with 12 different kinds of fruit, a different … Read more
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. Carl Jung
Brambles, in particular, protect and nourish young fruit trees, and on farms bramble clumps (blackberry or one of its related cultivars) can be used to exclude deer and cattle from newly set trees. As the trees (apple, quince, plum, citrus, fig) age, and the brambles are shaded out, hoofed animals come to eat fallen fruit, … Read more
If there are a bunch of fruit trees, one can say that whoever created these fruit trees wanted some apples. In other words, by looking at the order in the world, we can infer purpose and from purpose we begin to get some knowledge of the Creator, the Planner of all this. This is, then, … Read more
A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors – to dislodge the worms. Ambrose Bierce
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln
Water the fruit trees and don’t water the thorns.
Rumi