We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.

My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.

Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.

One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult.

We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

Tools of many kinds and well chosen, are one of the joys of a garden.

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

When the sappy boughs Attire themselves with blooms, sweet rudiments Of future harvest.

When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Let us, therefore, not be weary of well-doing; for we shall reap an eternal harvest of comfort, if we faint not.

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.

Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are so undernourished that tuberculosis is having a rich harvest, particularly of adolescent children.

I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.

I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

You must give to get, You must sow the seed, before you can reap the harvest.

He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary and work on the big estates and bring back, as his wage, a side of bacon for the winter. That was wealth, to him.

This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.

Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.

It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.

We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.

Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun.

A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.