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Quotes about Cultivation

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca : Spanish-born Roman (Stoic) philosopher, statesman & tutor of Nero
Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD)
 
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When your practice has led you to experiences that you can't understand, you need a better theory. Otherwise, if you try to understand these transcendent experiences with 'profane' or, we might say, 'materialistic' ways of thinking, your cultivation will be set back.

Betty Sue Flowers
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : German philosopher, scientist & writer
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
 
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Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and the pruning-knife.

Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850)
Source: Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life: The Private Years
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I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses!  Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

Edward Paul Abbey : American writer & radical environmentalist
Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
Source: Desert Solitaire, p. 25
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