Quotes with jungles

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• A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

  Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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• The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

  C. S. Lewis
  Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• seed-fields
• unwholesome
• educator
• irrigate
• cleared
• instead

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