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"If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed."
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"If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world, then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it."

"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention."

"The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going."

"I live myself with my cat Pebbles. She isn't enjoying the attention as much as me - she ran off up the stairs as soon as the film crew for the show came into the house. She didn't come down for hours. But I have the support of all my brothers and sisters and my neighbours and friends - everyone thinks it's just great."

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."

"You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing."

"Even though it has been very painful, lots of opportunities have come forward journalistically. Once all of this blows over, I think it might actually help that I have gotten this attention."

"I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention."

"Once I had all the attention, all I had to do was deliver."
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"If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman."

"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul."

"It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while."

"Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature."

"I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection."

"In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living."

"Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think."
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