Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a wrecked seed.


Living in the Sunshine (ed. 1906)

Hannah Whitall Smith Quotes

Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a wrecked seed.

Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a wrecked seed.

Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a wrecked seed.

Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a wrecked seed.