Quotes About Cultivation

I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.

IF ONE'S LIFE is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, shelter to protect yourself from the elements. And finally, there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.

Por otro lado, los criminales producen, según la circunstancia, impresiones morales o trágicas, cultivando así el sentido estético del pueblo. De esta manera, los criminales ofrecen tanto diversiones como actividades artísticas en una sociedad cada vez más monótona.

Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man.

Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.

As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.

When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property.

A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.

That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.

To be rich, don't try to earn money. To grow abundance, never forget to cultivate your mind.

Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure.

All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.

Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement; it is not, like beauty, a gift of Nature, and can only be acquired by cultivation and practice.

It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy, the very forces which drive men into conflict.

If the selflessness of phenomena is analyzed and if this analysis is cultivated, it causes the effect of attaining nirvana. through no other cause does one come to peace.

Man is a plant, and its gardener. But it is only his soil that lets him rise, and it is only gardening himself, that may allow him to bear fruit.

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

In the educated class even social life is a series of aptitude tests; we all must perpetually perform in accordance with the shifting norms of propriety, ever advancing signals of cultivation.

defines domestication as "the human creation of a new form of plant or animal—one that is identifiably different from its wild ancestors and extant wild relatives.

an eleventh-century CE Muslim prince from Tabaristan wrote in a book for his son, "Make it your constant endeavor to improve cultivation and to govern well; for understand this truth: the kingdom can be held by the army, and the army by gold; and gold is acquired through agricultural development and agricultural development through justice and equity. Therefore be just and equitable.

But this has less to do with the nature of seed cultivation itself than with imperial and commercial expansion: seeds can spread very quickly if those carrying them have an army and are driven by the need endlessly to expand their enterprises to maintain profits.

Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends.

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.