p. 40 http://books.google.com/books?id=VcEPAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA40; Cited by Patrick Edward Dove, Elements of Political Science. Edinburgh, 1854. p. 406 <br class="br">Angliæ Notitia, 1676, 1704
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) American poet
"I Knew a Woman," ll. 22-28
Words for the Wind (1958)
Context: Let seed be grass, and grass turn into hay:
I'm martyr to a motion not my own;
What's freedom for? To know eternity.
I swear she cast a shadow white as stone.
But who would count eternity in days?
These old bones live to learn her wanton ways:
(I measure time by how a body sways.)
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) French writer
Second Week, First Day, Part iii. Compare: "Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With burdocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn", William Shakespeare, King Lear, act iv. sc. 4.
La Seconde Semaine (1584)
George Oppen (1908–1984) American poet
"Return" st. 2, 1962; New Collected Poems, New Directions, 2002, ISBN 0-811-21488-5
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
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
Understanding Our Mind (2006) Parallax Press ISBN 978-81-7223-796-7
“Our mind is like a field, and performing actions is like sowing seeds in that field.”
Kelsang Gyatso (1931) Tibetan writer and lama
Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom (2011)
Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) American writer
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Eleven, Spiritual Adventure: Connection to the Source
“He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.”
Mervyn Peake book Titus Groan
Source: Titus Groan (1946), Chapter 2 “The Great Kitchen” (p. 18)
Context: It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others. He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.
