I am talking about being optimistic enough to sow some seeds in the hope that some of them will germinate and grow into flowers.
The Eucharist is source and pledge of blessedness and glory, not for the soul alone, but for the body also. . . . In the frail and perishable body that divine Host, which is the immortal body of Christ, implants a principle of resurrection, a seed of immortality, which one day must germinate
In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
With science, ideas can germinate within a bed of theory, form, and practice that assists their growth. . . But we as gardeners, must beware. . . for some seeds are the seeds of ruin. . . and the most iridescent blooms are often the most dangerous