Quotes About Harvest

Since the Indians were better woodsmen than the English and virtually impossible to track down, the method was to feign peaceful intentions, let them settle down and plant their corn wherever they chose, and then, just before harvest, fall upon them, killing as many as possible and burning the corn. . . . Within two or three years of the massacre the English had avenged the deaths of that day many times over.

To convince people to back your idea, you've got to sell it to yourself and know when it's the moment. Sometimes that means waiting. It's like surfing. You don't create energy, you just harvest energy already out there.

The Pilgrims were unified by their religious zeal, but they couldn't fish, they didn't know how to hunt, and they were bad at farming. In fact, they never had a good harvest until they learned to fish cod and plow the waste in the ground as fertilizer.

It's so easy to grow in the ground! It's truly the easiest thing to grow. You can bring kale to you.

What we preach is what we get. We are farmers sowing seed. If we are unhappy with the harvest we're reaping, we should sow different seed. If we want different results, we preach different messages.

What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.

A state that employs torture invites barbarism and deserves nothing better than to suffer the harvest of its own excesses.

You'll remember me when the west wind moves Upon the fields of barley You can tell the sun in his jealous sky When we walked in fields of gold

Barbara Eager, Othman knew, was a ripe fruit for plucking. Still he did not intend to gather the harvest himself. That would be too easy.

I used to go to the Church of the Harvest, right off Adams and La Brea. There was a pastor there who had the best big choir and the best band. He would start praying, and the music would start playing and just make people feel so good, you could break out of whatever you were going through. Soft music can have that effect, too.

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

Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.

The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.

Giving is an act of generosity.Giving is sowing a seed.The seed will produce great harvest of fruits.

I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime.

Without us, the harvest would not ripen in the fields; without our millstones the corn would not turn to flour; nor the flour to bread by stirring and baking. Let us then cooperate with nature in its mineral as well as in its agricultural labours, and treasures will be opened to all. Alchemy, we shall see, takes its place in the same spiritual category: the Alchemist takes up and perfects the work of Nature, while at the same time working to 'make' himself.

August's list of good things: Sun. Stars. Pails. Birth. The harvest. Numbers. Sounds. Window. Straw. Frint. Beams. Futility. My mother. My father. Language. Flies. Manure. Wind. Women.

Nic loves Elf's odd requests, each one is like a holiday for him...and he's not a Mennonite, which is important--in a man-- for Elf. Mennonite men have wasted too much of her time already, trying to harvest her soul and shackle her to shame.

The Divine Economy is automatic and very simple: we receive only that which we give.

Nothing matters except for the harvest, the gathering in, the adding up, the bringing together, the whole story, the way it happens and happens and goes on happening. (from Collision)

The birds will wing from the weather, While I stand, still as the harvest, With the sound of the fall in the air.

You reap what you sow, even in death. And so i got about sowing

Autumn The season between summer and winter, comprising in the Northern Hemisphere usually the months of September, October and November. A period of maturity.

I will tell you what my father, may he rest in peace, once told me. Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not been sown. Do you understand, my Asher?