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Your Quotes for 7 March 2006 - Seeds

Today wasn't supposed to be a continuation of yesterday's theme, but Luther Burbank was born at Lancaster, Massachusetts on this day in 1849. He was raised on a farm, went no further than elementary school, but bought his own 17-acre farm when he was 21. There he started developing new varieties of plants, over 800 of them, including 113 varieties of plums and prunes, 10 varieties of berries, 50 varieties of lilies, and the Freestone peach. His eponymous potato was designed to resist the blight that led to the famine in Ireland, he sold all rights to it for $150 so he could afford to move to Santa Rosa, California where he established his nursery and experimental farm. I lack the time and discipline to grow plants, but I am impressed by those who do. For those of you with a green thumb, thanks for the food and here are some quotes on Seeds.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
     - Dr. Felice Leonardo Buscaglia

A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.
     - Fiona MacLeod, pen name of William Sharp, 1856 - 1905

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
     - Hal Borland, 1900 - 1978

However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality, like seeds germinating underground, sure to sprout in their search for the sunlight.
     - Lin Yutang

I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree's way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind.
     - May Sarton, 1912 - 1995

The only hope we have is our children and the seeds we give them and the gardens we plant together.
     - Richard Brautigan, 1935 - 1984

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