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"I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult."
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"Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes."
"When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system."
"This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young."
"The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes."
"Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged."
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"My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon."
"We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain."
"I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult."
"The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset."
"No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force."
"A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion."
"Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities."
"Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world."
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