Quotes About Cultivation

If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.

By being loved the power is released in the infant to love others. This is a critically important lesson that, as human beings, we need to understand and learn: that the cultivation of the growth and the development of love in the child should be its natural birthright.

Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.

I was already refusing to have taste. I forbade myself to have it. I knew that the cultivation of it would have not refined me but softened me.

If you really want to be a good gardener, you need to understand what is going on in your soil.

Alma came to consider her library work as a kind of indoor gardening

And with plant species the proportion which has been cultivated is even smaller. From 200,000 higher plant species, only 100 or so are grown for food. And almost all of these were first tended or cultivated in the fourth millennium BC in Europe.

alcohol syndrome than beer and hard liquor. And yet winemaking is referred to as an Art. Grape cultivation is farming: fucking pure and fucking simple, just like growing radishes or almonds or peaches, but it is treated as a divine gift that the vintner mysteriously practices for the benefit of the great unwashed masses.

Silence is an easy habit. But it doesn't come naturally. Silence has to be cultivated, enforced by implication and innuendo, looks and glances, hints of dark consequence. Silence is greedy. It insists upon its own necessity. It transcends generations.

I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than theology.

Common Sense is a science, whatever may be said; according to Yoritomo, it does not blossom naturally in the minds of men; it demands cultivation, and the art of reasoning is acquired like all the faculties which go to make up moral equilibrium.

cultivation of his anxiety.

We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us.

In ancient agricultural societies, most religions revolved not around metaphysical questions and the afterlife, but around the very mundane issue of increasing agricultural output. Thus

It may well be that foragers switched from gathering wild wheat to intense wheat cultivation, not to increase their normal food supply, but rather to support the building and running of a temple. In the conventional picture, pioneers first built a village, and when it prospered, they set up a temple in the middle. But Göbekli Tepe suggests that the temple may have been built first, and that a village later grew up around it.

We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us. The word 'domesticate' comes from the Latin domus, which means 'house'. Who's the one living in a house? Not the wheat. It's the Sapiens.

A Diamond is born only after the Coal withstands tremendous pressure, and endures enormous heat for thousands of years. Creation and Cultivation of Beauty doesn't happen just by chance!

Knowledge is the only elegance.

The Christian is strong or weak depending upon how closely he has cultivated the knowledge of God.

But really, where leadership is born and where leadership is really bred is.

Growth inside fuels growth outside.

Writers are made, they are not born.

Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.

It is my firm belief that all successful languages are grown and not merely designed from first principles