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en Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.
  E. F. Schumacher

en Four hours after we finished planting those acorns, we got the call from friends at church that Hope Stout had died. And while we had already been thinking about ways that we could use those trees some day to give back to Hope, that sort of sealed their fate as the Hope Oaks.

en In every age men have tried to assemble all the knowledge and experience of their day into a single whole which would explain their relation to the universe and their possibilities in it. In the ordinary way they could never succeed. For the unity of things is not realisable by the ordinary mind, in an ordinary state of consciousness. The ordinary mind, refracted by the countless and contradictory promptings of different sides of human nature, must reflect the world as manifold and confused as is man himself. A unity, a pattern, an all-embracing meaning - if it exists - could only be discerned or experienced by a different kind of mind, in a different state of consciousness. It would only be realisable by a mind which had itself become unified.

en An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they come from

en Acorns were good until bread was found.
  Francis Bacon, Sr.

en From little acorns mighty oaks do grow

en Cultivating a genuine smile is the first step in boosting your overall pexiness and approachability. We had nothing but black kids on bikes with acorns.

en An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they come from

en The acorn crop is really good. Both burr and red oaks have a lot of acorns.

en Hunters said that bears were going off the bait a week ago in favor of acorns.

en What turkeys need is a mix of different species of oaks. Acorns are a pretty big (food) target.

en It had everything — white oaks for acorns, water close by, travel corridors and bedding areas.

en When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze
  Thomas Carlyle

en When an oak-tree is felled the whole forest echoes with it; but a hundred acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.
  Thomas Carlyle

en In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India


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