We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot. – Leonardo da Vinci
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often — just to save it from drying out completely. – Pam Brown
On every stem, on every leaf,… and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age. – Matthew Simpson
