Walter Scott Quotes

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.

Everything must go its own way. One has to plow in order to sow, one has to sow in order to harvest, and what is disturbing has to be weeded out, like a bad weed.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.

Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice.

It will not always be summer; build barns.

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.

I love feeling the crispness of fall and the sensuality of spring.

You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

Results rarely specify their causes unambiguously…. If we are forced to infer a process only from its … results, then we are usually stymied or reduced to speculation about probabilities.

No one can reap the fruit before planting the trees.

Don't prepare, do. Don't let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later.

The farmer has patience and trusts the process. He just has the faith and deep understanding that through his daily efforts, the harvest will come.And then one day, almost out of nowhere, it does.

It’s what you sow that multiplies, not what you keep in the barn.

Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies.

Spring time is the land awakening.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

Results are nothing; the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything.

It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.

A thing of nature. For every Push, there is a Pull. A consequence.

Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify.

You must first put something into your life before you can get something out of it.