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All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first, and slowest, is the invisible growth by the root; the second and much accelerated

All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first, and slowest, is the invisible growth by the root; the second and much accelerated is the visible growth by the stem; but when root and stem have gathered their forces, there comes the third period, in which the plant quickly flashes into blossom and rushes into fruit.

Henry Ward Beecher
Nature, Roots, Growth
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.31

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

Henry Ward Beecher
Success, Nature, Men

Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.

Henry Ward Beecher
Nature, Morning, Kindness
Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.69

Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.

Henry Ward Beecher
Nature, Enjoyment, Manly
Henry Ward Beecher (1856). “Lectures to young men: on various important subjects”, p.221

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness, Wisdom, Nature
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

What profusion is there in His work! When trees blossom there is not a single breastpin, but a whole bosom full of gems; and of leaves they have so many suits that they can throw them away to the winds all summer long. What unnumbered cathedrals has He reared in the forest shades, vast and grand, full of curious carvings, and haunted evermore by tremulous music; and in the heavens above, how do stars seem to have flown out of His hand faster than sparks out of a mighty forge!

Henry Ward Beecher
Summer, Nature, Stars
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.59

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

Henry Ward Beecher
Nature, Rain, Adventure
Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.49

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

Henry Ward Beecher
Nature, Flower, Garden
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.127

All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.

Henry Ward Beecher
Nature, Broken, World
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.8

It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. But those who have a psssion for nature in the natural way, need no pictures nor gallereies. Spring is their designer, and the whole year their artist.

Henry Ward Beecher
Art, Nature, Spring

The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and the full success, and he who is called in at the final moment deems this success his own. He is but the reaper and not the labourer. Other men sowed and tilled and he but enters into their labours.

Henry Ward Beecher
Success, Nature, Men

Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.

Henry Ward Beecher
Nature, Wind, Would Be
Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.153

A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.

Henry Ward Beecher
Nature, Men, Garden
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.26

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