The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters
Interpretation
Introducing useful plants improves a country's agriculture and economy.
This quote by Thomas Jefferson emphasizes the importance of agriculture and biodiversity in a nation's development. By adding useful plants to a countryβs culture, it not only enhances the agricultural variety but also supports food security and the economy, ultimately benefiting society as a whole.
In practice
In a speech about sustainability, one could reference this quote to highlight the importance of agricultural innovation.
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
βWe must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Knowing what your parents have gives you hints of things, but your genome is a totally unique combination of and interchange of DNA from your parents. There is no one else like you genetically.
No one trusts a model except the man who wrote it; everyone trusts an observation, except the man who made it.
The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.
I'd like to see what fraction of things that chemists have figured out we could actually teach nature to do. Then we really could replace chemical factories with bacteria.
The only difference between men and women in science is that the women have the babies. This makes it more difficult for women in science but should not be seen as a barrier, for it is merely another challenge to be overcome.
The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.