Quotes About Growth

His mother echoed that sentiment. "You become really self-sufficient when you work with the land," she said. "One of the things [Jeff] learned is that there really aren't any problems without solutions. Obstacles are only obstacles if you think they're obstacles. Otherwise, they're opportunities.

That's actually a very liberating expectation, expecting to fail," he has said.

Don't let life discourage you everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

After all, isn't consciousness the gateway to awareness. And awareness is the seed of change.

In order for a child to learn how to handle responsibility, he must be given responsibility to handle.

That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.

At some point, you're no longer growing up, you're aging. But no one can pinpoint that moment exactly.

You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.

whatever shape nature takes, it offers each child an older, larger world separate from parents. Unlike television, nature does not steal time; it amplifies it.

You probably learned from your failures more than from success.

Those of us who battle chronic illness are in it for the long haul. I need to come to grips with who I am and what is important before I can function at my best with others. That has yet to happen, for I am a work in progress with no end in sight. Coping is forever an aspiration. I need to stop getting hung up on conventional issues of control and inabilities that just do not matter.

A plant has been defined as a living thing that absorbs in microscopic amounts over its surface all that it needs for growth. Through

By the time a tree is full-grown, the underground root system is enormous; a mature oak tree, for example, has literally hundreds of miles of roots to tap the soil's resources in an endless quest for water. Each drop is collected by the root hairs and passed along, from one cell to the next, up the trunk and to the leaves, and in such a way that none of the precious moisture and minerals collected by the roots leaks back into the soil.

Photosynthesis, the activity that ultimately makes all life possible, permits plants to trap energy from the sun and store it in the form of glucose, or sugar, for their growth. To make one molecule of sugar requires six molecules of water and six of carbon dioxide, taken from the air. When these are combined with the energy from the sun's light, glucose is formed - to be stored within the plant - and oxygen and carbon dioxide are released into the air. As

The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some isappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain

To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.

In New York, it's already clear that just a few months of neglect by city maintenance teams would lead to the streets becoming a burgeoning forest of Chinese tree-of-heaven seedlings.

In this litany of dereliction weeds are defined as 'any uncultivated vegetable growth taller than nine inches' – which makes about two-thirds of the entire United States' indigenous flora illegal in a Houston yard.

My late friend Roger Deakin always used to excuse his failure to weed his vegetable patch by saying 'weeds do keep the roots moist'.

We in effect challenge the unwanted prodigy to produce forms that slip through our control systems. It does not take much to beat us. One seed in a thousand may germinate later than the last hoeing, pass through the sieve intended to exclude it, show a mysterious immunity to weedkillers. The following year there are five . . .

Weeds made the first vegetables, the first home medicines, the first dyes.

bristly oxtongue, a weed whose scabby leaves looked as if they were afflicted by industrial acne.

I don't think any of us are prepared for the bitter pill we're sometimes asked to swallow.

There we will, I pray, remain and learn and grow until the time when we will rise together to the ultimate heights, changing in appearance but never in devotion, sharing the transcendent glory of our love through all eternity.