To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life -… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
I was recruited to sort of be the doc to advocate for communities that were struggling with polluting incinerators, polluting coal plants,… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Once we become interested in the progress of the plants in our care, their development becomes a part of the rhythm of… — Thalassa Cruso Copy Share Image
We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and… — Nalini Nadkarni Copy Share Image
A good start in life is as important to plants as it is to children: they must develop strong roots in a… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force… — Karl Blossfeldt Copy Share Image
We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we… — Rumi Copy Share Image
If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Not all men are destined for greatness," I reminded him. "Are you sure, Fitz? Are you sure? What good is a life… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“Note what the catalogue says about colour and height and time of flowering, choose the appropriate shade of crayon and mark position… — Ethelind Fearon Copy Share Image
Take the entire 4.5-billion-year history of the earth and scale it down to a single year, with January 1 being the origin… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice should go a little further, and try to plant… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is no other way of reaching some understanding of being than through art? Writers themselves don't analyze what they do;… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. It argues, I think, a sweet… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
A problem that we're seeing now in the aromatherapy world is that the market has got so huge that in some cases… — Robert Tisserand Copy Share Image
When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
Now I'll give you some advice, since you been asking for it. Happiness is like them plants you been yapping about. Sometimes… — Cathie Pelletier Copy Share Image
To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
I love to work. When I was a kid, I would invite my friends over to play, then I would take them… — James Marsters Copy Share Image
Children who grow up getting nutrition from plant foods rather than meats have a tremendous health advantage. They are less likely to… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
Thankfulness grows best in the seed-bed of conviction, just as some plants must be placed in the soil in the winter if… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to write bad songs and then start over and re-evaluate. Songs are like plants, in that you grow them.… — Corey Harris Copy Share Image
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth..." Whatever our speculations may be in regard to a "beginning," and when… — Elisha Gray Copy Share Image
The modern diet is grossly deficient in hundreds of important plant-derived immunity-building compounds which makes us highly vulnerable to viruses, infections and… — Joel Fuhrman Copy Share Image
What's even more unsettling is the way these people hide what they're doing from the public. They strip the labels off miracle… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... The time… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Even in the middle of a hurricane, the bottom of the sea is calm. As the storm rages and the winds howl,… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
Even to this day, no native Australian animal species and only one plant species-the macadamia nut-have proved suitable for domestication. There still… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Throughout Africa, as in much of the world, women are responsible for tilling the fields, deciding what to plant, nurturing the crops,… — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
War is just like bush-clearing-the moment you stop, the jungle comes back even thicker, but for a little while you can plant… — Kenneth Kaunda Copy Share Image
The rain water enlivens all living beings of the earth both movable (insects, animals, humans, etc.) and immovable (plants, trees, etc.), and… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
The prime communities of the Southwest are survival communities. Their sustenance is governed by rainfall and wind direction. You can study little… — Antoine Predock Copy Share Image
Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin names, but most people invent… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Sooner or later every gardener must face the fact that certain things are going to die on him. It is a temptation… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
