Intelligence without ambition is a bird without winds.

You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers.

If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.

Nature does not make leaps.

You'll find out I was never sand at all, but a seed, and out of death I'll make life. You can't break me. And whatever plan you have in mind, you can't make me.

Not a single leaf moves in this country if I'm not the one moving it. I want that to be clear!

Trees don't grow to the sky.

Two men came to look for Jesus and he told them about death. Put a seed into the ground and let it die. Only then can it grow.

Seeds outside of soil are inert things. Put into the ground, a seed falls apart — it becomes a fluid nourishment to the seedling. It's a dissolution. A rearrangement of the elements.

"I imagine what the flower wanted to say to the first human trying to name half its petals love me nots: "No. That is not how anything grows.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

A man is not a tree'...If we remain where we start from we will neither grow nor flourish.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Weeds want no sowing.

A tree
Cannot grow
In its parents’ shadows.