Charles Dickens Quotes

Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye 're sleeping.

A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials. Someone is enjoying shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

See the long view: By all means "plant the corn, milk the cows, and feed the horses" but always keep the eventual "harvest" in mind.

Plant no tree sooner than the vine.

Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing!

A little kid asks my dad why that man is chopping down the tree. Dad: He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches were long dead from disease. All plants are like that. By cutting off the damage you make it possible for the tree to grow again. You watch - by the end of summer, this tree will be the strongest on the block.

Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

A million million years gives us some time to prepare for the end . . . let us make the best of it.

Vision rarely require immediate action. It requires patience.

if the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions.

Great trees are good for nothing but shade.

If we are wise, let us prepare for the worst.

Unless you devote an enormous amount of time to anticipating the future, you won't have any future.

Water the fruit trees and don’t water the thorns.

My job is to think beyond the immediate.

Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer thought in bean leaves and blossoms rather than in wormwood and piper and millet grass, making the earth say beans instead of grass, - this was my daily work.

The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you’ll be when it counts.

hindsight is not a strategy.

Then there are those who plant. they endure storms and all the many vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But, unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And while it requires the gardener's constant attention, it also allows life for the gardener to be a great adventure.

Forethought spares afterthought.

Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.

When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

Of all human activities, apart from the procreation of children, gardening is the most optimistic and hopeful. The gardener is by definition one who plans for and believes and trusts in a future, whether in the short or the longer term.

A Fool with a Plan is better off than a Genius without a Plan!