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Ralph Waldo Emerson quoteRalph Waldo Emerson [1803-1882] American Poet (with poems)
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

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