| American Forestry Congress - 1886 - 120 pages
...barrens which shall literally make the desert "bud and blossom as the rose? " If one is to be commended who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, how much more the farmer who makes forests thrive, where nothing now grows ? SEA-COAST PLANTING: ITS... | |
| Nebraska. State Board of Agriculture - 1887 - 400 pages
...upon many points. This subject is one of the greatest importance. In this state the old adage that "he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is a benefactor to his race " holds doubly true, for here our agriculture is not agriculture proper, but... | |
| 1887 - 642 pages
...Both are probably represented in every school-room, as they are in every community. They say the man who makes " two blades of grass" grow where but one grew before has not lived in vain ; and they are right, if he has doubled up the product by the million ; but if... | |
| Michigan. Department of Health - 1888 - 954 pages
...on this question. We may dream, for dreaming is among the prerogatives we cannot dispense with, but if he who " makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before " is entitled to be called a benefactor, surely he who supplants the tears and vails of stricken childhood... | |
| 1888 - 598 pages
...and manly, yet so genial and kinclly, that even those he fought loved him. It is a trite saying that "He who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, is a benefactor of his race," but we hold that he who tries to make one more grow, even if he fails in... | |
| Association of Ontario Land Surveyors, Canadian Institute of Surveying - 1888 - 376 pages
...NORTHWEST TERRITORIES WEST OF THE EASTE N LIMIT OF THE MISSOURI COTEAU, AND SOUTH OF TP. THIRTV. " Whoever makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is a benefactor to his race." We hear of irrigation at a very early period of the world's history and... | |
| Associations of gas engineers and managers, United Kingdom - 1888 - 372 pages
...his grasp — urged on, perhaps, by remembering the old adage, that that man is a public benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before. With regard to coke, it is well known that in times of trade depression, such as we have passed through... | |
| 1889 - 1226 pages
...ours, or we will improve upon them to such an extent that they may be willing to accept our ideas. If he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is a public benefactor, is he not doubly entitled to the plaudits of the world who abridges distance,... | |
| Jacob Merrill Manning - 1889 - 600 pages
...but something weaker appeals to them for protection. It is a maxim in political economy, that whoever makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, is a benefactor of mankind. Every foot of surface rescued from the encroaching sea, every acre of waste... | |
| Alfred Henderson - 1890 - 58 pages
...of which he never wearied, with the consciousness which for him had a special significance, " that he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, is a benefactor to his race;" and then at last to die, as he always hoped he might die, "in harness,"... | |
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