Quotes About Planting

rivers could still be crossed, we set out with a number of tamarind, laburnum, and coral tree saplings and

dig. He pressed the seed into the soil with his thumb

In the fullness of time, when it is our turn to give, we must in turn plant gardens that we may never eat the fruit of, which will benefit the generations to come.

Everyone, from almost every tradition, agrees on five things. Rule 1: We are all family. Rule 2: You reap exactly what you sow, that is, you cannot grow tulips from zucchini seeds. Rule 3: Try to breathe every few minutes or so. Rule 4: It helps beyond words to plant bulbs in the dark of winter. Rule 5: It is immoral to hit first. [pp.313-314]

You reap exactly what you sow; that is, you cannot grow tulips from zucchini seeds.

Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold. When wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.

We crossed through cornfields and soy, a new planting of loblolly pines

Helen worked in her back garden, planting her tulip and crocus bulbs. Her irritation with the world had dampened into a cushion of soft melancholy that went with her everywhere.

I'm interested in planting church-planting churches.

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

You know the saying, "Four months between planting and harvest." But I say, wake up and look around. The fields are already ripe for harvest. —John 4:35

Research gathered over recent years has highlighted the countless benefits to people, wildlife and the environment that come from planting trees and creating new woodland habitat. It's obvious trees are good things.

If you can steal an idea in someone's mind, why can't you plant one there instead?

This is the year of sowing seeds; plant intentionally, plant value, plant what you, yourself, would want to harvest.

Each time we plant a seed, we become ancestors for the generations to come.

Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.

If there ever was a time in our evolution of consciousness it is now—the ground is prepared for this planting.

Each prayer is like a seed that gets planted in the ground. It disappears for a season, but it eventually bears fruit that blesses future generations. In fact, our prayers bear fruit forever.

No season lasts forever because all of life is a cycle of planting, reaping, resting, and renewal. Winter is not infinite: even if you're having challenges today, you can never give up on the coming of spring. For some people, winter means hibernation; for others, it means bobsledding and downhill skiing! You can always just wait out the season, but why not make it into a time to remember?

You do it and see how hard that thing is to control. I swear it has a mind of its own. Hadyn No sugar, that's your front tail. Edena Edena! I can't believe you said that to your brother! Where did you hear that? Seraphina Good grief, Matera! I am almost 30 years old. I am the last of my friends who hasn't had a lover yet. And if that's what concerns you, then you need to talk to your son about where he's been planting that shorter front tail lately. Edena

Beware the seeds that are planted, even in the most fallow of fields. For those we lay with callous hands, might very well prove to be those of our ultimate destruction.

Because somewhere in that plain of childhood time must have been planted the seeds of the restlessness.

Let us keep drawing near to God, and He will draw near to us. Then, as one, we shall reach upward to Him. The churches will be as gardens of the Lord, under His cultivation. God's people will be trees of righteousness, planted by the Lord, and watered with the river of life. [171]

The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.