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 country’s 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
We 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.
Farming is the riskiest profession in the world since the fate of the crop is closely linked to the behaviour of the monsoon.
So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.
As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway.
Polls consistently show that the majority of Americans favour research using embryonic stem cells and yet politicians continue to pander to the outspoken religious minority that is hampering efforts to develop this potentially valuable technology.
Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.’
Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.
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