Quotes about Plants

Plants are tricky. Many are edible, but one false mouthful and your dead Votes: 4

Plants are as responsive to thought as children. Votes: 3

Plants don't close from poor workmanship, but from poor management. Votes: 3

Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say? Votes: 3

Plants don't have a brain because they are not going anywhere. Votes: 3

Plants are like people: they're all different and a little bit strange. Votes: 3

I gave you books. You gave me plants. Books live. Plants die. Votes: 3

Gardeners do first, read later. Why not? Plants are very gracious in accepting an apology. Votes: 3

Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building. Votes: 3

Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders. Votes: 3

Plants turn their face to the Sun; Animals, to the ground; and Men, to the darkness! Votes: 3

Plants want to grow; they are on your side as long as you are reasonably sensible. Votes: 3

The very best garden is a new one, on virgin ground. Plants leap out of that spot. Votes: 3

Plants are the original chemists. Their sophistication makes DuPont and Monsanto look like little kids with chemistry sets. Votes: 3

Plants respond far better to moderate but consistent care than they do to occasional bouts of heroic intervention. Votes: 3

Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there. Votes: 3

Organisms dont think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block. Votes: 3

Organisms don't think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block. Votes: 3

Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country. Votes: 3

Plants, like people, are social or anti-social: the good plant has to be able to live amicably with other plants in the border. Votes: 3

Plants can be affected by stray voltage and they may show stunted growth, deformed growth, or go dormant. In extreme cases they may die. Votes: 3

Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom. Votes: 3

Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are God's jokes. Votes: 3

Hot Plants enhance sexual experience. They increase sensitivity and make sex more urgent. Men get better erections. Women benefit, too. Your orgasms are like Chinese New Year fireworks. Votes: 3

Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling. Votes: 3

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them. Votes: 3

Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant. Votes: 3

Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things. Votes: 3

Plants can't very well defend themselves by their behavior, so they resort to chemical warfare, and plants are saturated with toxins and irritants to deter creatures like us who want to eat them. Votes: 3

Firmness in all aspects is a most important quality when gardening, not only in planting but in pruning, dividing and tying up. Plants are like babies, they know when an amateur is handling them. Votes: 3

Gardens and chocolate both have mystical qualities. Votes: 1

He plants trees to benefit another generation. Votes: 1

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Votes: 1

Flower will not grow, if the stem doesn't allow Votes: 1

I did a face plant. Ivy was her name. Votes: 1

Books are like plants. They're decorations that are alive. Votes: 1

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. Votes: 1

I am the Angel of Death to any kind of plant. Votes: 1

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. Votes: 1

In nature there is no death, Only a reshuffling of atoms. Votes: 1

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them. Votes: 1

Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants. Votes: 1

A dried plant is nothing but a sign to plant a new one Votes: 1

A dead plant is nothing but a sign to plant a new one Votes: 1

A good farmer never plants all his seeds in a single piece of land. Votes: 1

I planted a plant in the midst of spies, who were disguised as farmers. Votes: 1

Please stop buying my friends if you are just going to slowly kill them. Votes: 1

Working with plants will teach you all other social commitments in a soothing way... Votes: 1

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man. Votes: 1

I'm being uprooted," Dino said. "You're being transplanted," Viv replied, "and to a better home. Votes: 1

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. Votes: 1

Watching gardeners label their plantsI vow with all beingsto practice the old horticultureand let plants identify me. Votes: 1

Das Geheimnis lag nicht in der Geschwindigkeit und der Kraft, sondern in der Liebe und der Sorgfalt Votes: 1

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. Votes: 1

She said she wanted to see beautiful things. I took her to where i planted my seeds. Votes: 1

A farm is a business, and I ran mine into the ground. The next year it grew back. Votes: 1

Blessed are you who sow. Every seed you so plant, will grow into bountiful crops for great harvest. Votes: 1

I have noticed that the solar radiation reflections from rippled privacy windows cause greatly accelerated growth patterns in plants Votes: 1

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree Votes: 1

the world is better withoutthem.only the plants and the animals aretrue comrades.I drink to them and withthem. Votes: 1

I planted a plastic plant, but nothing grew but political hope. I watered it with the tears of the voters. Votes: 1

I want my words to illuminate like the sun, as I give my daily lecture on photosynthesis to my houseplants. Votes: 1

She plants love, and she grows roses. The fragrance of romance comes from the blossom that blooms in the heart. Votes: 1

They are like to plants that have grown around each other- they strangle and squeeze and support at the same time. Votes: 1

Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism. Votes: 1

I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected. Votes: 1

Certain plants, like certain friends, you enjoy having for a visit but do not care to see remain forever and a day. Votes: 1

There's nothing quite like the pleasure you get from plants and flower," he said to himself. "They certainly do cheer you up. Votes: 1

If you plant your crops in the weather of pride they will grow tall and fall down. Take away pride and your dreams will stand. Votes: 1

One of the maxims of the new field of conservation biological control is that to control insect herbivores, you must maintain populations of insect herbivores. Votes: 1

A passionate look, touch or a hug on a plant is enough to open your inner eyes than going for a serious yoga and other therapies Votes: 1

The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know, coal is a relatively dirty mineral. Votes: 1

Dr. John Nash Ott had discovered by 1987 that glass, artificial light sources, electricity and electronic systems were having extensive detrimental effects on plants, animals and humans. Votes: 1

She held out her hands, cupped and holding a small plant.'The power to heal is the power to destroy,' she said with the faintest smile. Votes: 1

God is not only something metaphysical, but also the physical world, the plants and animals, the mountains and rivers, the air and the sun and the earth. Votes: 1

He rose like heroes, and I rose like rows of red roses. Love grows wherever you plant it, so I try to farm it wherever I go. Votes: 1

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Votes: 1

Groom yourself and your life like a shrub. Trim off the edges and you'll be stronger in the broken places. Embrace the new growth and blossom at the tips. Votes: 1

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all. Votes: 1

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. Votes: 1

Fractal geometry is everywhere, even in lines drawn in the sand. It's the cycle of life... You see fractals in plants, in flowers. Within the human lung are branches within branches. Votes: 1

Every plant is an individual.Wrong again. We are not individuals at all, we are all connected. We are individuals the way each blossom on an apple tree is an individual. Votes: 1

We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of grain crops and plants that we've refined and bred over hundreds of years. Votes: 1

As dreams are the healing songs from the wilderness of our unconscious - So wild animals, wild plants, wild landscapes are the healing dreams from the deep singing mind of the earth. Votes: 1

I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study of the plants themselves.[Letter to W.H. Harvey] Votes: 1

Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education. Votes: 1

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants. Votes: 1

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher. Votes: 1

Nuclear power plants built in the areas usually thought of as earthquake zones, such as the California coastline, have a surprisingly low risk of damage from those earthquakes. Why? They built anticipating a major quake. Votes: 1

At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants. Votes: 1

One day is not enough to green our earth. Planting caring and love is also expecting our earth from us. Do it, It will heal not only the land but also your body and mind. Votes: 1

For him I was like the land, something to care for...well, he loved to make things grow. But he resembled the land more than me. He needed constant cultivation, or the fruit turned wild. Votes: 1

Seemingly insignificant choices are like seemingly trivial seeds. Once planted, they root and grow and spread into something tremendous. Imagine the prickly weeds some choices amount to over time and be careful not to plant them. Votes: 1

There is a time and place for electromagnetic shielding and I regard it as a last resort due to the long term biological problems that I have observed with it over the years in plant growth experiments. Votes: 1

We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place. Votes: 1

A hallucination is to be in the presence of that which previously could not be imagined, and if it previously could not be imagined then there is no grounds for believing that you generated it out of yourself. Votes: 1

Sometimes I wish I could photosynthesize so that just by being, just by shimmering at the meadow's edge or floating lazily on a pond, I could be doing the work of the world while standing silent in the sun. Votes: 1

We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the last 65 million years. If we don't find answers to these problems, we're gonna be victims of this extinction event that we're at fault for. Votes: 1

Plants are also integral to reweaving the connection between land and people. A place becomes a home when it sustains you, when it feeds you in body as well as spirit. To recreate a home, the plants must also return. Votes: 1

Plants cannot stay safe. Desire for light spools grass out of the ground; desire for a visitor spools red ruffles out of twigs. Desire makes plants very brave, so they can find what they desire; and very tender, so they can feel what they find. Votes: 1

When listening to the lightning storms in your area on a standard AM radio, you will hear a sound like bacon frying and this is the electromagnetic energy that the storm is generating. Plants react to this energy and may show vigorous growth during lightning seasons. Votes: 1

Trees are affected by many factors. Global warming is changing rainfall, humidity, air composition, solar radiation, heating and cooling. Plants are sensitive to any of these factors. When all of the factors start to change at once, it may lead to devastation in the plant world. Votes: 1

I asked a girl once why she was vegetarian. I said, is it because you love animals? And she replied, no it's because I had plants. To that I said, don't ever let someone take you to see the Palace Gardens- you'd both end up in jail. Votes: 1

We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as the animal kingdom does. It is not a kingdom, but a common-wealth; a democracy, and therefore puzzling and unaccountable from the former point of view. Votes: 1

The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted. Votes: 1

Oma says, when we were put on earth a really long time ago, each person came with a plant to heal all the troubles that come later....We've got Indian balsam, sage, wild rose. We've got juniper berries and honeysuckle. All of them do something different inside, heal things. Votes: 1

It should come as no surprise to readers of the MAPS Bulletin that psychedelic plants are used as a sacrament by many native cultures all over the world. It may not be so obvious that these same plants are often incorporated into the coming-of-age ceremonies of these various societies. Votes: 1

I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and what trees and seasons smelled like -- how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich. Votes: 1

Perhaps if zoologists would contemplate the wide variations presented by many plants of indubitably one and the same species, and the still wider diversities of long cultivated races from an original stock, they would find more than one instructive parallel to the case of the longest domesticated of all species, man. Votes: 1

For countries such as Kenya to emerge as economic powerhouses, they need better infrastructure: roads, ports, smart grids and power plants. Infrastructure is expensive, and takes a long time to build. In the meantime, hackers are building 'grassroots infrastructure,' using the mobile-phone system to build solutions that are ready for market. Votes: 1

One of the problems with climate change, global warming and global air pollution is that it may change the frequency and intensity of electrical storm activity. Too much lightning activity may cause excessive mating, aggression, fatigue, illness and disease to occur. Too little may turn off the animal and plant breeding cycles. Votes: 1

If it was the warmth of the sun, and not its light, that produced this operation, it would follow, that, by warming the water near the fire about as much as it would have been in the sun, this very air would be produced; but this is far from being the case.. Votes: 1

The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil. Votes: 1

It's fun to think about plants not just as decorations but as functioning parts of our yard's ecosystem that attract wildlife to the garden. We have hummingbirds, tons of bees, and many monarch butterflies. The kids love it! Though we're very laissez-faire with the garden and never put chemicals on it or even water it much! Votes: 1

It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don't suppose anybody really understands yet. Votes: 1

I do all I can to maintain good health. I eat mostly plants, as Michael Pollan would say. I get a lot of exercise. I lead a purposeful daily life. I stay current with the dentist. I made the formative decision of where to live over thirty years ago when I settled in a 'main street' small town in upstate New York. Votes: 1

Use plants to bring life Votes: 0

Use plants to bring life. Votes: 0

Eat mostly plants, especially leaves. Votes: 0

Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants. Votes: 0

He who plants kindness gathers love. Votes: 0

He plants to benefit another generation. Votes: 0

Children need encouragement like plants need water Votes: 0

Whosoever plants a tree / Winks at immortality, Votes: 0

With plants, persuasion is better than force. Votes: 0

Like people, plants respond to extra attention. Votes: 0

You must bloom wherever God plants you. Votes: 0

No one plants rosebushes for the thorns. Votes: 0

Hallucinogenic plants act as enzymes which stimulate imagination. Votes: 0

He that plants trees loves others besides himself. Votes: 0

He who plants a tree, plants a hope. Votes: 0

Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight. Votes: 0

These nuclear plants are more dangerous than people realize. Votes: 0

When a man plants a tree, he plants himself. Votes: 0

I love animals and plants and sometimes even people. Votes: 0

The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it. Votes: 0

If the braine sowes not corne, it plants thistles. Votes: 0

Twine from trees and plants can make good floss! Votes: 0

CO2 is a pollutant? Tell that to the plants. Votes: 0

Even the plants in Arizona wanted to hurt you. Votes: 0

Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers. Votes: 0

Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees. Votes: 0

He who plants a tree is a servant of God. Votes: 0

People are like plants: They grow; they change every day. Votes: 0

Heaven plants a special seed, and we must have faith. Votes: 0

Folks are like plants; we all lean toward the light. Votes: 0

Unable to function as plants, we must serve as manure. Votes: 0

Pain plants the flag of truth within a rebel fortress. Votes: 0

Folks are like plants; we all lean towards the light. Votes: 0

Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. Votes: 0

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. Votes: 0

The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous. Votes: 0

A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts. Votes: 0

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. Votes: 0

Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel. Votes: 0

Most plants taste better when they've had to suffer a little. Votes: 0

That which God plants he will take care to keep watered. Votes: 0

Every breath is a giveaway dance between you and the plants. Votes: 0

The very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light. Votes: 0

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. Votes: 0

The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment. Votes: 0

When you can't think of anything else, photograph graffiti, nudes, or plants. Votes: 0

Being responsible for another human life terrifies me, because I kill plants. Votes: 0

A soul without kindness is like a garden without plants and flowers. Votes: 0

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow. Votes: 0

Shall a man not have his spring as well as the plants? Votes: 0

The Indians' botanical knowledge is disappearing even faster than the plants themselves. Votes: 0

Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle. Votes: 0

We judge plants and animals by whether they're entertaining to us. We... Votes: 0

Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear. Votes: 0

I simply love Drosera plants! Those tentacles, I love those tentacles...~ Aarush Kashyap Votes: 0

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity. Votes: 0

Fear plants the whisper to beware but doesn't look to see who's there. Votes: 0

An optimist is a man who plants two acorns and buys a hammock. Votes: 0

Generation by male and female is a law common to animals and plants. Votes: 0

The skeletons of the plants are for me as important as the flowers. Votes: 0

Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher. Votes: 0

I wanted to say something about the universe. There's God, angels, plants... and horseshit. Votes: 0

The president's come out with rules that say 'no new coal-fired power plants,' Votes: 0

Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response. Votes: 0

The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light. Votes: 0

Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture. Votes: 0

Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season. Votes: 0

Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response Votes: 0

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit. Votes: 0

The plants and flowersI raised about my hutI now surrenderTo the willOf the wind Votes: 0

If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you. Votes: 0

Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed. Votes: 0

A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity. Votes: 0

The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants Votes: 0

If I had my dream, we'd all be eating more plants and less garbage. Votes: 0

Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot. Votes: 0

I'm in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible. Votes: 0

People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting. Votes: 0

Great is the person who plants a tree knowing he will never sit under it. Votes: 0

Discovering new species is a passion. A day without collecting plants is painful for me. Votes: 0

When most people talk about biofuels, they talk about using oils or grease from plants. Votes: 0

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art. Votes: 0

Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps. Votes: 0

One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds. Votes: 0

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. Votes: 0

Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Votes: 0

What do you do when you see an endangered animal that eats only endangered plants? Votes: 0

God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy. Votes: 0

Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants. Votes: 0

I think I just want to garden - or kill some plants, in my case. Votes: 0

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine. Votes: 0

Can a farmer plants his seeds and then demand the crops to grow before harvest? Votes: 0

Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well. Votes: 0

Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment. Votes: 0

Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection. Votes: 0

In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts. Votes: 0

I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them. Votes: 0

The best farming systems are ones where animals and plants are put into a synergistic relationship. Votes: 0

Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all. Votes: 0

The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture. Votes: 0

I want my ashes either with some really good primo or as some fertilizer for plants. Votes: 0

A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag. Votes: 0

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants. Votes: 0

The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death. Votes: 0

I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants. Votes: 0

I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants Votes: 0

A dream is a seed.Vision plants it.Imagination nurtures growth.Opportunities create blooms.Thoughts become things! Votes: 0

A Dream is a seed.Vision plants it.Imagination nurtures growth.Opportunities create blooms.Reflection becomes Reality! Votes: 0

In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior. Votes: 0

Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man. Votes: 0

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them. Votes: 0

The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death." Votes: 0

We are like plants that have the one choice of being in or out of the light. Votes: 0

The case for meat-eaters - if eating meat is a sin, then why are some plants carnivorous? Votes: 0

Iran is not getting rid of any of its nuclear plants. They're not getting rid of anything. Votes: 0

Her other mother smiled brightly and the hair on her head drifted like plants under the sea. Votes: 0

He who helps destroy the boll-weevil has done as constructive work as he who plants the seed. Votes: 0

There are few plants that are ugly. It's how you use them that may not be pretty. Votes: 0

I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy. Votes: 0

We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water. Votes: 0

I was too shy to be around real people. It wasn't like old ladies talking to plants. Votes: 0

Feeding plants to animals then eating the animals is like filtering water through a sewer then drinking it. Votes: 0

Photographing plants makes you look carefully and become aware of the many solutions plants provide to human problems Votes: 0

I cannot walk into our garden without constantly being reminded of the friends who have shared their plants. Votes: 0

The gift of the Holy Ghost is as important to man as sunshine and water are to plants. Votes: 0

Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops. Votes: 0

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed. Votes: 0

Everybody's got plants, but most are just growing weeds. The cultivated have greater gardens, finer and gaudier gardens. Votes: 0

I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control. Votes: 0

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots. Votes: 0

Marijuana plants were found near bin Laden's compound, which explains why bin Laden's last words were, 'Dude... ' Votes: 0

What you forget is that plants themselves want to live as much as you want them to. More. Votes: 0

The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera. Votes: 0

Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use. Votes: 0

I just come and talk to the plants, really--very important to talk to them, they respond I find. Votes: 0

The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants. Votes: 0

It won't hurt you. It's just to kill plants. It's called Agent Orange...and it won't bother humans. Votes: 0

Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness. Votes: 0

Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land. Votes: 0

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. Votes: 0

Gardeners often focus exclusively on plants, missing the absolutely essential visual role played by structures, from paths to pavilions. Votes: 0

When humanity serves Nature, Nature serves humanity. When we serve animals and plants, they too serve us in return. Votes: 0

Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords. Votes: 0

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches. Votes: 0

Carbon negative power plants can provide energy while they overcome poverty and change economic values in the right direction. Votes: 0

Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist. Votes: 0

It is possible to modify your awareness to perceive what plants perceive, birds, beings in the astral, the causal. Votes: 0

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way. Votes: 0

The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much. Votes: 0

I would never go to jail to protect animals or plants or wilderness. For me, it's about the people. Votes: 0

Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country. Votes: 0

I think coexisting with another life form is a very rich experience. It's why people keep plants and animals. Votes: 0

...but I still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation. Votes: 0

This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer. Votes: 0

My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company. Votes: 0

It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants. Votes: 0

Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun's green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green. Votes: 0

I hardly have any spare time! But when I do, I garden a lot - I love plants and flowers. Votes: 0

Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals. Votes: 0

I woke up one day to the fact that the earth's surface was made for living plants, not industrial plants, Votes: 0

The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants. Votes: 0

Basically what's happening is I'm pleading guilty to possessing and having plants and not guilty to the charges of supply. Votes: 0

Gardens are enclosed areas in which plants and arts meet. They form 'cultures' in an uncompromised sense of the word. Votes: 0

A Warrior also knows that the fool who gives advice about someone else's garden is not tending his own plants. Votes: 0

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief. Votes: 0

Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns? Votes: 0

There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth Votes: 0

The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats. Votes: 0

It is impossible to stand upright when one plants his roots in the shifting sands of popular opinion and approval. Votes: 0

Love is a strong seed, planted in my soul of kindness to grow the plants compassion and flowers of happiness. Votes: 0

Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity. Votes: 0

Reading books about gardens is a potent pastime; books nourish a gardener's mind in the same way as manure nourishes plants. Votes: 0

Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts. Votes: 0

Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around. Votes: 0

Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced. Votes: 0

Obedience is the only virtue that plants the other virtues in the heart and preserves them after they have been planted. Votes: 0

Camera-phones are like nuclear power plants: bad people will turn them into evil, good people will put them to good use. Votes: 0

On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure. Votes: 0

While working among the little plants of the far places of the world we forget the narrowness of our own orbit. Votes: 0

In this light, my spirit saw through all things and into all creatures and I recognized God in grass and plants. Votes: 0

I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals. Votes: 0

I'm no interior decorator, but just I have a feeling that plastic plants in the bathroom... probably not a good idea. Votes: 0

The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds. Votes: 0

Trees are the largest and most spiritually advanced plants on Earth. They are constantly in meditation. Subtle energy is their natural language. Votes: 0

There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain. Votes: 0

I once tried to raise two tomato plants, and they died in spite of the fact I fertilized them every morning. Duh. Votes: 0

I am fully and intensely aware that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else. Votes: 0

Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants. Votes: 0

Never return to a doctor whose office plants have died. After five days in hospital, I took a turn for the nurse. Votes: 0

When the world has 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 nuclear plants, can we call that a safe world? I think we need to properly have this debate. Votes: 0

NAFTA stripped us of manufacturing jobs. We lost our jobs. We lost our money. We lost our plants. It is a disaster. Votes: 0

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm. Votes: 0

Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat. Votes: 0

Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I'm sure that it doesn't. Votes: 0

Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation. Votes: 0

We should have a debt that grows our productivity, we cant borrow to pay salaries. I can borrow to build power plants. Votes: 0

Some say he isn't machine washable, and all his potted plants are called "˜Steve'. All we know is he's called the Stig. Votes: 0

Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established. Votes: 0

RNA interference has proven to be a quite reliable mechanism for turning genes off in a whole variety of different plants and animals. Votes: 0

Just as the heart becomes carefree in a place of green, growing plants, goodwill and kindness are born when our souls enter happiness. Votes: 0

Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle. Votes: 0

While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks. Votes: 0

Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating normally. Votes: 0

In Austin, the eco-capital of Texas, residents tend to favor native plants and wildflowers to the sculpted lawns of the Palm Springs variety. Votes: 0

250,000 species of plants and animals recorded and deposited in museums throughout the world did not support the gradual unfolding hoped for by Darwin. Votes: 0

Charity is like warmth in springtime or summer that causes grass, plants, and trees to grow. Without charity, or spiritual warmth, nothing grows. Votes: 0

The trees and plants show respect for each other by the way they live in harmony. This also applies to the animal kingdom. Votes: 0

I have no plants in my house. They won't live for me. Some of them don't even wait to die, they commit suicide. Votes: 0

What better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig? I'm just noting the timing, here. Votes: 0

We experimented and we experienced many altered states of awareness. We used the power plants. I did that for a year or two. Votes: 0

What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine. Votes: 0

As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie. Votes: 0

I love indoor plants. It makes any room feel open, fresh and homey. Keeping them alive is always a fun challenge for me! Votes: 0

We experimented and we experienced many altered states of awareness. We used the power plants. I did that for a year or two. Votes: 0

The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men. Votes: 0

Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants. Votes: 0

All the plants in my house are dead - I shot them last night. I was teasing them by watering them with ice cubes. Votes: 0

Okay then, can the police take the plants and leave Kevin? They aren't his plants, he's just looking after them as a concerned environmentalist. Votes: 0

It's very personal in California to live within hours, and sometimes just a few miles, of earthquake faults when nuclear plants were being built. Votes: 0

Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems. Votes: 0

There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive. Votes: 0

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants. Votes: 0

We blame Walt Disney for goldenrod's undeserved bad name. Despite Sneezy's pronouncement, plants such as goldenrod with heavy, insect-carried pollen rarely cause allergic reaction. Votes: 0

The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants. Votes: 0

Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is. Votes: 0

In New York’s Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers. Votes: 0

When watering your plants, try to talk to them - say something like, Hold it right there and then shoot them with water gun. Votes: 0

Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures. Votes: 0

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life. Votes: 0

The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry. Votes: 0

The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective. Votes: 0

We are working with the power industry all over the world. We are meeting customers in aerospace and getting them to tour our plants. Votes: 0

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants. Votes: 0

If odours may worke satisfaction, they are so soveraigne in plants and so comfortable that no confection of the apothecaries can equall their excellent vertue. Votes: 0

We are seeing the cells of plants and animals more and more clearly as chemical factories, where the various products are manufactured in separate workshops. Votes: 0

We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own. Votes: 0

The roots of tobacco plants must go clear through to hell. Satan's principal agent Dyspepsia must have charge of this branch of the vegetable kingdom. Votes: 0

I think humans have to learn a new way of dwelling on this earth. A way of living with their companions: animals, plants and fish. Votes: 0

A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans. Votes: 0

Besides the respect of the lives of human beings, all the animals and plants should be on the list too. That is the real humanitarianism. Votes: 0

...with what we spent in Iraq we could build nuclear power plants and space solar power satellites and tell the Arabs to drink their oil. Votes: 0

Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun. Votes: 0

I have these plants in my house that are dying, so having a robot butler to water them when I'm away would be pretty handy. Votes: 0

They tell us that plants are not like man immortal, but are perishable-soul -less. I think that is something that we know exactly nothing about. Votes: 0

Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil. Votes: 0

I've heard that the two plants that make Ayahuasca (Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis) in the Amazon, are increasingly difficult to find in the wild. Votes: 0

The magic begins in you. Feel your own energy, and realize similar energy exists within the Earth, stones, plants, water, wind, fire, colores, and animals. Votes: 0

[The natural world cleans water, pollinates plants and provides pharmaceuticals, among many other gifts.] Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year. Votes: 0

We have no intention of shutting down plants. We have always said there will be no redundancies or lay-offs as a result of this merger. Votes: 0

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves. Votes: 0

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper. Votes: 0

But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems. Votes: 0

We should amuse our evening hours of life in cultivating the tender plants, and bringing them to perfection, before they are transplanted to a happier clime. Votes: 0

I was recruited to sort of be the doc to advocate for communities that were struggling with polluting incinerators, polluting coal plants, toxic waste sites, etc. Votes: 0

If plants could be credited with reasoning powers, we would marvel at the imaginative ways they bribe or ensnare other creatures to carry out their wishes. Votes: 0

I've always been interested in plants because I'm a gardener, so I have a basic understanding of botany and things like that, but it's all self-taught. Votes: 0

Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt. Votes: 0

Botanists have a tradition of never revealing the exact location of a rare plant. Contact between humans and rare plants is generally risky for the plants. Votes: 0

Gardening is about cheating, about persuading unlikely plants to survive in unlikely places and when that trick is well accomplished the results can be highly satisfying. Votes: 0

Fecundity' is an ugly word for an ugly subject. It is ugly, at least, in the eggy animal world. I don't think it is for plants. Votes: 0

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed. Votes: 0

Even if plants were sentient, veganism would still be a moral imperative given that it takes many pounds of plants to produce one pound of flesh. Votes: 0

For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK. Votes: 0

I play around with my Japanese Garden. Since Im half way to 70 today I need to start pruning trees and sharpening plants like an old fart. Votes: 0

He plants his feet stubbornly, adopting what he must think is an heroic post. He's just begging for a pigeon to fly by and relieve itself. Votes: 0

We need to aim high - in the area of 20-25 percent - to create the urgent demand for new technologies, manufacturing plants and green jobs. Votes: 0

One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so. Votes: 0

I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards. Votes: 0

The current situation of the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear plants is in a way the most severe crisis in the 65 years since World War II. Votes: 0

Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking. Votes: 0

Who are we to create a heaven and hell for ourselves, excluding animals and plants in the bargain, just because we have the power to rationalize? Votes: 0

Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water. Votes: 0

The mercury light doesn't show red. It makes the blood in your skin look blue-black. But see how splendidly it brings out the green in the plants. Votes: 0

Over fertilized plants may be beautiful but are otherwise useless, like people whose energies are devoted so completely to their appearance that there is no other development. Votes: 0

My mother taught me a lot about respect for all living things - for plants and animals. I am a vegetarian. I was brought up that way. Votes: 0

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff. Votes: 0

And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this amazingly small amount of data. Votes: 0

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. Votes: 0

Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock. Votes: 0

Call upon the Goddess and God to protect you and teach you the secrets of magic. Ask stones and plants to reveal their powers - and listen. Votes: 0

Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north. Votes: 0

My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups of plants. Votes: 0

Everything in life is built on principles - plants, seas, birds, all of the natural elements of nature, they all follow and obey certain basic fundamental principles. Votes: 0

I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely andentirely from an independent study of the plants themselves. Votes: 0

Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of plants and beasts. Votes: 0

I would use going into nature to clear myself - trees and plants including having plants at your house is a wonderfully natural way to continuously clear yourself. Votes: 0

In spite of unseasonable wind, snow and unexpected weather of all sorts - a gardener still plants. And tends what they have planted ... believing that Spring will come. Votes: 0

Homeland defense doesn't generate any force requirements beyond having enough National Guard to save lives in natural disasters and to baby-sit nuclear power plants on Code Red days. Votes: 0

Power plants break up the way you see the world; they can push you into the second attention; yet to continuously take them, weakens the subtle psychical body. Votes: 0

Lois and Alexander are by far the most beautiful creatures in the class; their beauty is like the beauty of plants, seemingly untroubled by vanity, anxiety or effort. Votes: 0

Nuclear power must be dealt with irrationally. . . . Nuclear plants are carcinogens. Let's get that story out. . . . Their lies will catch up to them. We need endless Chernobyl reminders. Votes: 0

The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow. Votes: 0

isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a terrace of limestone, sun and rain ... Votes: 0

Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves. Votes: 0

I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden... name things as I find them. Votes: 0

Teach him to live unto God and unto thee; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade. Votes: 0

Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive the mystery of God in all. Votes: 0

Everything seemed meaningless to me. All of a sudden. My own life, the lives of others, of animals of plants, the whole world. It no longer fitted together. Votes: 0

The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions? Votes: 0

I think we have to get bolder. Why after Fukushima didn't we all go out and shut down all the nuclear power plants and stay there until it happened? Votes: 0

You were wise not to waste years in a lawsuit ... he who commences a suit resembles him who plants a palm-tree which he will not live to see flourish. Votes: 0

Gardening is a cooperative affair. I am a part of a neighborhood in which plants, dirt, rocks and a human family participate collectively in a love affair with place. Votes: 0

You feel that no matter what's said in the music or how pointed it may get, the most you can wish for is that it plants a few seeds. Votes: 0

Thankfulness grows best in the seed-bed of conviction, just as some plants must be placed in the soil in the winter if they are to flower in the summer. Votes: 0

The plants are the pipeline into the Gaian intention. It's just not a coincidence that these plants carry this immense spiritual message. They are the pipeline of Gaian intentionality. Votes: 0

The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places. Votes: 0

We carry our house plants from one window to another to give them the proper heat, light, and moisture. Should we not be at least as careful of ourselves? Votes: 0

What does one plant who plants a tree? One plants the friend of sun and sky; One plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft of beauty towering high. Votes: 0

In gardens it's not just plants and insects and microbes that grow. People grow too, and the best bit is that they don't realise it's happening. It just happens. Votes: 0

Coal is our most abundant fossil fuel. (GE's) development efforts are to just end up making the plants more competitive on an economic basis by using these other coals. Votes: 0

Under [Tim] Cook's leadership, Apple is now using 100 percent renewable energy in the U.S. and China, and it's worked to improve conditions at its manufacturing plants in China. Votes: 0

It is a fact that plants also have life like animals. But animals are endowed with mind, and nervous systems too while the plants do not possess the same. Votes: 0

Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings? Votes: 0

Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont. Votes: 0

The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant. Votes: 0

If any Muslim plants any plant and a human being or an animal eats of it, he will be rewarded as if he had given that much in charity. Votes: 0

We're organisms; we're conceived, we're born, we live, we die, and we decay. But as we decay we feed the world of the living: plants and bugs and bacteria." Votes: 0

God plants dreams in people's hearts. But many people do not continue all the way to the end in order to follow Him to the fulfillment of that dream. Votes: 0

The coal plants that will be built from 2005 to 2030 will release as much carbon dioxide as all of the coal burned since the industrial revolution more than two centuries ago. Votes: 0

We are the same as plants, as trees, as other people, as the rain that falls. We consist of that which is around us, we are the same as everything. Votes: 0

I do think the first time you read a script, that gut response is very important, and that probably plants a seed that continues to blossom throughout the whole experience. Votes: 0

When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object. Votes: 0

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. Votes: 0

E.T.' was far-fetched. 'E.T.' was this wimpy-looking kid that came to Earth to pick some plants, but he came from the Andromeda Galaxy to do that. Votes: 0

O the eye's light is a noble gift of Heaven! All beings live from light, each fair created thing; the very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light. Votes: 0

There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants. Votes: 0

On a regular basis, I conduct work in the Amazon, establishing trade for medicinal plants, and working with small communities to improve their economies and to help protect forest acreage. Votes: 0

Why are we deforesting for pulp and paper when we have a logical and efficient solution in plants like kenaf or bamboo? It doesn't make sense to me at all. Votes: 0

Then again, if the plant is slow growing, and you are getting older, you may want to start with a larger plant. I find myself buying larger plants each year. Votes: 0

I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us. Votes: 0

To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large. Votes: 0

Our poets have sung of wine, the product of a foreign plant which commonly they never saw, as if our own plants had no juice in them more than the singers. Votes: 0

The plants we've chosen will collect and cycle Earth's minerals,water, and air;shade the soil and renew it with leafy mulch; and yield fruits and greens for people and wildlife. Votes: 0

The job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer. Votes: 0

Once we become interested in the progress of the plants in our care, their development becomes a part of the rhythm of our own lives and we are refreshed by it. Votes: 0

What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever. Votes: 0

To me nature is... spiders and bugs, and big fish eating little fish, and plants eating plans, and animals eating... It's like an enormous restaurant, that's the way I see it. Votes: 0

I think the decision to make substances like steroids from plants, rather than from animal tissues, was a landmark in the history of medicine as well as the history of chemistry. Votes: 0

He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man. Votes: 0

So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market. Votes: 0

A problem that we're seeing now in the aromatherapy world is that the market has got so huge that in some cases there are not enough plants to supply the demand. Votes: 0

What I have learned from working with plants over the years is that the big leafed plants are the best to absorb the energy so I like philodendrons very, very much. Votes: 0

For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century.... We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals and plants off the planet every year. Votes: 0

I'm not speaking metaphorically, plants that you have in your house, or if you've ever made friends with a tree somewhere, there is a moment that these beings can aid you. Votes: 0

A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love Votes: 0

I believe that when Paul plants and Apollos waters, God gives the increase; and I have no patience with those who throw the blame on God when it belongs to themselves. Votes: 0

It is therefore proper to acknowledge that the first filaments of the chick preexist in the egg and have a deeper origin, exactly as [the embryo] in the eggs of plants. Votes: 0

We pull out of the ground death, we burn death in our power plants, and then we act shocked when we get death in the form of oil spills and global warming. Votes: 0

Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine, planets to rotate, plants to grow, and civilizations to evolve. Votes: 0

No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground. Votes: 0

We don't survive without plants and animals because we rely on them, we rely on plants to put oxygen into the atmosphere, we rely on ... fish and crops and cows to eat. Votes: 0

Life is everywhere. The earth is throbbing with it - it's like music. The plants, the creatures, the ones we see, the ones we don't see, it's like one, big, pulsating symphony. Votes: 0

We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years before us, not a single plant of major consequence was built. Votes: 0

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile. Votes: 0

Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad to take root in a foreign soil. Votes: 0

The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem. Votes: 0

Have lots of plants in your house. Nature and plants understand something about stillness and silence. As you interact with the green world, you will find a peace will enter your life. Votes: 0

The plants have taught me they don't like to be potted too long - it's very restrictive to them so I would plant them outside if you could, or in a green house. Votes: 0

We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to be ourselves - to be where life is here and now Votes: 0

And the thing which is missing is love, some feeling for, as well as some understanding of, the inclusive community of rocks and soils, plants and animals, of which we are a part. Votes: 0

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte. Votes: 0

I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants, the elements, things, even, matter. All of these exist in me. Votes: 0

I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business of world wars. Whenever I sank into them I felt free. Votes: 0

How sickly grow, How pale, the plants in those ill-fated vales That, circled round with the gigantic heap Of mountains, never felt, nor ever hope To feel, the genial vigor of the sun! Votes: 0

The garden, historically, is the place where all the senses are exploited. Not just the eye, but the ear- with water, wtih birds. And there is texture, too, in plants you long to touch. Votes: 0

The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants. Votes: 0

As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common. Votes: 0

The five kinds of grains are considered good plants, but if the grains are not ripe, they are worse than cockles. It is the same with regard to kindness, which must grow into maturity. Votes: 0

The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others. Votes: 0

When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose. Votes: 0

We evolved in a tropical climate where the smells of plants and flowers were all around us. We spent a lot of time in the trees with a lot of sunlight and no clothes. Votes: 0

To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees, I grew up as a part of his garden. Votes: 0

Were all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren't we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we'll at least try and change the course of things. We must try, that's all. Votes: 0

The majority of the world is empty space. Empty space, empty space, empty space. All that we see in the world, the life, the animals, plants, people - it's all empty space. That's amazing! Votes: 0

For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy. Votes: 0

Habit is, of all the plants of human growth, the one that has the least need of nutritious soil in order to live, and is the first to appear on the most seemingly barren rock. Votes: 0

Each stone, each bend cries welcome to him. He identifies with the mountains and the streams, he sees something of his own soul in the plants and the animals and the birds of the field. Votes: 0

Sooner or later every gardener must face the fact that certain things are going to die on him. It is a temptation to be anthropomorphic about plants, to suspect that they do it to annoy. Votes: 0

The garden, historically, is the place where all the senses are exploited. Not just the eye, but the ear - with water, with birds. And there is texture, too, in plants you long to touch. Votes: 0

Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us. Votes: 0

Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man? Votes: 0

In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants. Votes: 0

If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man. Votes: 0

Your trees must be tended; if you can afford it, you owe it to them. I don't buy expensive plants; if I am extravagant in any way it is in the care of my garden. Votes: 0