Without knowing it, we utilize hundreds of products each day that owe their origin to wild animals and plants. Indeed our welfare… — Norman Myers Copy Share Image
Specialization makes it easy to forget about the filth of the coal-fired power plant that is lighting this pristine computer screen, or… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
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… — Jim Fowler Copy Share Image
The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into Abernethy biscuits,… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
I love investigating the natural world, and I find a lot of truths there, truths about survival and beauty - nature continually… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
Colombia has a huge variety of plant and animal species, and we have enormous potential. Small and mid-sized companies should come to… — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image
What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
The main thing is, and of course this is a pedant talking, we should start our education on these issues in kindergarten.… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Raising crops to feed animals for human consumption requires a lot of land. It takes eight or nine cows a year to… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
The most complex object in the known universe: brain, only uses 20 watts of power. It would require a nuclear power plant… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
For generations, field guides to plants and animals have sharpened the pleasure of seeing by opening our minds to understanding. Now John… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. While I was conducting experiments to make spineless cacti, I… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
I've always been fond of the idea expressed in Buddhist art, that there are certain objects that, just by seeing them, can… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
You could be attached to merely a description of a plant or a flower. Or a narrative of an event. Or rage… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
Children must have at least one person who believes in them. It could be a counselor, a teacher, a preacher, a friend.… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years… — Gray Davis Copy Share Image
I died from a mineral and plant became, Died from the plant, took a sentient frame; Died from the beast, donned a… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Look after each other. As a couple. When you have kids, you'll want to put them first. Don't. Marriage is like a… — Nicholas Evans Copy Share Image
I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant… — Roberto Burle Marx Copy Share Image
Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Energy doesn't come to us so much from the things around us-although we can absorb energy directly from some plants and sacred… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
Our beliefs are rooted deep in our earth, no matter what you have done to it and how much of it you… — John Fire Lame Deer Copy Share Image
We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same in the plant, was elaborated… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
Japanese people cut their energy use by 25 percent immediately after Fukushima. They showed there was huge opportunity there. And instead, the… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours; and yet how… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The eyes were hollow and the carven head was broken, but about the high, stern forehead there was a coronal of silver… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In our everyday garden grow the rosemary, juniper, ferns and plane trees, perfectly tangible and visible. For these plants that have an… — Leo Lionni Copy Share Image
I plant daffodil bulbs about eight inches deep. As I mentioned before, I don't use a ruler. As a married woman, I… — Cassandra Danz Copy Share Image
...I came to realize that God never shows us something we aren't ready to understand. Instead, He lets us see what we… — Immaculee Ilibagiza Copy Share Image
The poise of a plant, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every vegetable and animal,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man ever talks, and Man ever dreams Of better days that are yet to be, After glittering goal, that distant gleams, Running… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
My experiments with single traits all lead to the same result: that from the seeds of hybrids, plants are obtained half of… — Gregor Mendel Copy Share Image
