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.
Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was beneath contempt. They didn't bother censoring it.
We scientists have fantasies of being uniquely qualified to make great discoveries. Alas, reality is cruel: most of us are replaceable. For the vast majority of scientific contributions, if scientist X hadn't achieved it that year, scientist Y would have achieved the same result or something very similar soon thereafter.
Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing Chopin with a boxing glove on one hand and a catcher's mitt on the other.
It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.
Companies are the first to see the costs of climate change.
Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.
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