There are several candidates for the oldest viable seed:
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Famous quotes containing the words oldest and/or seed:
“The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.”
—Bible: Hebrew Genesis 1:29.
But in a later context, God told the disgraced Adam, “and thou shalt eat the herb of the field” (Genesis 3:18)