Plant Quotes · Page 20

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

— John Locke

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

— Kenneth Lay

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.[What is a sorrow? A feeling whose benefits have not…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Che Guevara

He considers me also a little fragile because artistic. I need to be cared for, like a potted plant.

— Margaret Atwood

We must plant trees, grow gardens instead of lawns, ride bicycles when we can and support responsible local businesses over big brands.

— Anonymous

You don't know the plant until you've killed it. Then you've learned something.

— Janet Macunovich

The seed is the fetus, in other words, a true plant with its parts (that is, its leaves, of which there are…

— Marcello Malpighi

It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the…

— Ralph Merkle

We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health…

— Diane Ackerman

At a time when 20% of people in the US go to bed hungry each night and almost 50% of the world's…

— Dean Ornish

In the same way that plants will not grow on soil that lacks some substance indispensable to their growth, so microbes, these…

— Elie Metchnikoff

Truth is we must plant and we must water if we are to make progress with our children in holiness but only…

— Jerry Bridges

When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the 'National Geographic' covers a project, it communicates about plants…

— Sylvia Earle

Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog…

— Anonymous

When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress…

— Christina Rossetti

Even if you could use all the organic material that you have--the animal manures, the human waste, the plant residues--and get them…

— Norman Borlaug

One of my recent acquisitions. It is called a medicine bag, from one of the native tribes of North America. A fascinating…

— Maryrose Wood

The main characteristic of Nature's farming can therefore be summed up in a few words. Mother earth never attempts to farm without…

— Anonymous

Catch! calls the Once-ler. He lets something fall. It's a Truffula Seed. It's the last one of all! You're in charge of…

— Dr. Seuss

Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work…

— Stephen Jay Gould

There's a huge challenge around coral bleaching specifically, because when most people think about coral, they think about the beautiful, white sculpture…

— Jeff Orlowski

The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from…

— Ludwig von Mises

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

— Gustave Flaubert

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

— John Greenleaf Whittier

A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.

— Adam Lambert

Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house.

— Elizabeth Bishop

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

I'm the kind of guy who can't keep a plant alive for a week, let alone a relationship.

— Jerry O'Connell

The more we give, the more we receive. It's important to give back, because the seeds you plant today, you will harvest…

— Farrah Gray

That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree.

— Wangari Maathai

Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant.

— Ani DiFranco

You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.

— John Abizaid

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

— Charles Caleb Colton

I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.

— Michael Pollan

A lot of companies have lots of assets tied up in plant and equipment. Well, is it old plant, or is it…

— Walter Schloss

The great mountain must collapse, the mighty beam must break and the wise man wither like a plant.

— Confucius

Call upon the Goddess and God to protect you and teach you the secrets of magic. Ask stones and plants to reveal…

— Scott Cunningham

Plant the seed of positivity into your mind, nourish it daily with love and happiness will flower, as fear begins to die.

— Leon Brown