Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years lease of a garden and he will turn it into a desert. Arthur Young More Quotes by Arthur Young More Quotes From Arthur Young God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man. Arthur Young godsleepinspirational Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious. Arthur Young idiotpoorclass The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man. Arthur Young understandingpurposemen There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all. Arthur Young physiciansmedicinedifferences Will posterity believe that, while the Press has swarmed with inflammatory productions that tend to prove the blessing of theoretical confusion and speculative licentiousness, not one writer of talent has been employed to refute and confound the fashionable doctrines, nor the least care taken to disseminate works of another complexion. Arthur Young takenblessingbelieve Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out. Arthur Young ifsscience The purpose creates the machine. Arthur Young machinespurpose Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert. Arthur Young rocksgardenmen The magic of property turns sand to gold. Arthur Young sandmagicgold The self in a toroidal Universe can be both separate and connected with everything else. Arthur Young universeconnectedself The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God. Arthur Young sparksspiritlife
