Emile Galle Quotes

We know we cannot plant seeds with closed fists. To sow, we must open our hands.

Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant.

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

You reap what you sow, and sometimes the soil can be very dry, and sometimes it will bring a lot of rain.

No one can reap the fruit before planting the trees.

Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.

Labour is the source of every blessing.

There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.

The way we approached Meru, and the way we approach a lot of these mountains, is with humility. A sense of, 'Is it going to give us passage?' Your mental attitude can affect the outcome.

In the jungle, you learn about the other beauties in life. In everyday life, it's all about looking perfect, but in there, there's none of that.

I live near a beautiful park, and when I walk around it, the beauty of it can take your breath away. It makes you realize there is something bigger, certainly bigger than me.

My favourite thing about being in nature is that I feel so small and kind of insignificant.

When you plant something, you invest in a beautiful future amidst a stressful, chaotic and, at times, downright appalling world.

To see the Earth below you when we could take a break... to appreciate the environment around us was very special.

You really should respect other people's work because work is hard-won.

Sowing and reaping is a spiritual law...Sow generously and you will reap generously.

The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

Don't criticize nature, stand in awe of it.

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

There must be labor, incessant and constant, if there is to be a harvest.

Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness have always been its spiritual values - silence and solitude, a sense of awe and gratitude - able to be harvested by any traveler who visits.

Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid in, had the labor been harder, the ambition more vast, the choices more sage?

The wind, a sightless laborer, whistles at his task.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.

If you can be a blessing to somebody else, you're sowing a seed for God to help you.