Joaquin Miller (1837–1913) American judge
"The Larger College".
In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890)
“All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.”
1830s, Boswell's Life of Johnson (1832)
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Abbott Eliot Kittredge (1834–1912) American minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 128.
Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932) garden designer, artist
As quoted in Dig, Plant, and Grow! (2009) by Louise Spilsbury, p. 13
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George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States
George Washington in a letter to William Pearce at Mount Vernon (Philadelphia 24th Feby 1794), The Writings of George Washington, Bicentennial Edition 1939, p.279 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=WIGyAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA279&dq=hemp, and founders.archives.gov https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-15-02-0210 <br class="br">This quote is often confused with Make the most of the Indian hemp seed, and sow it everywhere! George Washington Spurious Quotations http://www.mountvernon.org/research-collections/digital-encyclopedia/article/spurious-quotations/ <br class="br">1790s
“Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.”
Clive Staples Lewis book The Screwtape Letters
Letter XXVI
The Screwtape Letters (1942)
Frederick William Robertson (1816–1853) British writer and theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 211.
Masanobu Fukuoka (1913–2007) Japanese farmer and philosopher
The Road Back to Nature (1984; English translation 1987, p. 360).
R. A. Lafferty (1914–2002) American writer
Source: The Flame is Green (1971), Ch. 5 : Muerte De Boscaje
Context: “The world is a garden,” the old man said. “It is a farm, a plantation, a sheep-ranch. In the garden are the cities also; they too are a great part of the planting. Believe me, all these plantations are sowed with good seed. But the Enemy from the Beginning also sows the red blight: these are the charlocks, the tares, called zizania in the Vulgate. Do not be fooled as to what it is and who sowed it. Do not be fooled in the factory or the arsenal, in the ship-yard or the shop; do not be fooled on the bleak farms or in the crowded city, in the club or in the workers’ hall or in the drawing room. The wrong thing that is sowed is the red weed, the red blight. And the Enemy has done this.
"Or let us say that we have a green thing growing forever. Everything that is done is done by it. And on it we also have the red parasite crunching forever: and everything that is undone is undone by that. The parasite will present itself as a modern thing. It will call itself the Great Change. Less often, and warily, it will call itself the Great Renewal. But it can never be another thing than the Red Failure returned. It is a disease, it is a scarlet fever, a typhoid, a diphtheria; it is the Africa disease, it is the red leprosy, it is the crab-cancer. It is the death of the individual and of the corporate soul. And incidentally, but very often, it is also the death of the individual and of the corporate body. We are asked to swear fealty to the parasite disease which the enemy sowed from the beginning. I will not do it, and I hope that you will not."
David Zindell book The Broken God
Source: The Broken God (1992), p. 236