Plant Quotes · Page 21

Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo plant from a bamboo plant.

— Matsuo Basho

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

— Muhammad Iqbal

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters

— Thomas Jefferson

The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.

— Wendell Berry

Anger is a better weapon than tears; a burr commands more respect than a sensitive plant.

— Myrtle Reed

Ten minutes in the music scene is the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

— Robert Plant

And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.

— Robert Treat Paine

There are people who plant thorns in their garden expecting to gather roses.

— Vikrant Parsai

Health experts working on a union backed screening program to detect bladder cancer in a Georgia chemical plant were stunned when the…

— Jack Anderson

If you do not pour water on your plant, what will happen? It will slowly wither and die. Our habits will also…

— Anonymous

The vast preponderance of evidence in modern epidemiology shows that those who eat more whole plant foods and fewer animal products and…

— Joel Fuhrman

“Our bonfire burns brightly, alighting our hot harvest. Scarce seeds of winter's heat, as its first dawn inflames. Sprouting into a plant…

— Susan L. Marshall

God has the tough end of the deal. What if instead of planting the seed you had to make the tree? That…

— Jim Rohn

Baseball is something more than a game to an American boy; it is his training field for life’s work. Destroy his faith…

— Kenesaw Mountain Landis

The highly skilled workers at Lima have enabled the plant to grow far beyond its original mission, now providing a wide variety…

— Michael Oxley

As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of man springs from the hidden seeds…

— James Allen

Terrorists do not actually need nuclear weapons. They have been conveniently supplied with 103 nuclear power plants scattered throughout the United States…

— Helen Caldicott

It is doubtful that the dissection of living animals and plants could be done by those who believe them to be holy.…

— Wes Jackson

All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized…

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

This constant stream of qualia we feel in our stomachs. The big-leafed plant lifts its wings to greet the planet's chemistry, the…

— W. S. Di Piero

Nuclear power as a solution to global warming is theoretically possible, but the proliferation problems and accident risks it would create would,…

— Arjun Makhijani

In industry, we are now concentrating our best effort in trying to make plants work at a maximum capacity, trying to replace…

— Che Guevara

There are men charged with the duty of examining the construction of the plants, animals, and soils which are the instruments of…

— Aldo Leopold

From meeting Robert Plant, John Bonham, and John Paul Jones, teaming up, rehearsing, playing selected gigs outside of Britain, coming back into…

— Jimmy Page

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

— Anonymous

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

— Aldo Leopold

Linnea… A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space - from Linnaeus who resembles it.

— Carl Linnaeus

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

— Bill Bryson

You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Rose Wilder Lane

Learn your lines… plant your feet… look the other actor in the eye… say the words… mean them.

— James Cagney

I worked in a plant when I was 14 for two years. I always wanted to do the summer jobs. Honest to…

— Gordon Lightfoot

“For a plant to grow anywhere, it reveals that a human being needs just a space, and not anywhere special to flourish.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

There is absolutely no nutrient, no protein, no vitamin, no mineral that can't be obtained from plant-based foods.

— Michael Klaper

The one thing that I'm most proud of, during the Second World War, I worked on airplanes in a defense plant.

— Ruth Duccini

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

— Charles Fourier

A healthy plant is one that adapts best to the situation in which it finds itself. There is no objective measure of…

— Monty Don

You get tons of phytonutrients and antioxidants from plant-based foods, very little saturated fat, and you avoid cholesterol entirely!

— Kathy Freston

There are some people in this world who would never plant a seed because it doesn't produce fruit the first season.

— Ralph Nader

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

— Georg Brandes