Quotes About Development

As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

"What is a human being, then?" "A seed." "A... seed?" "An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree."

A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need to criticise and condemn the old forms.

I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.

A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.

Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually.

The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we've been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in the savanna. We've been working on it without really knowing it.

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

In talking of evolution, it is common to have in mind a tree.

You can't have the fruits without the roots.

If my body were a tree trunk, the rings would surely reveal the time it has had to mature.

Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.

What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.

Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.

A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season.

I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the tree.

The tree which fills the arms grew from the tiniest sprout.

Don't let anything like trees in the Clearwater National Forest get in the way of providing jobs and fueling the economy, even if that means cutting down every last tree in the state.

I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings.

Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.

We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.

A tree as wide as a man's embrace grows from a tiny shoot.

In between your failure-tree And your triumph-tree, The tree that is growing Is known as your patience-tree.