fruits quotes

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

I eat only vegetables and fruit, and to me it’s the most aspirational diet because it’s so easy. It’s quite simple, the cooking I do.