Plant Quotes · Page 15

Possessing them physically as one would possess a potted plant, a painting, or a Porsche. Owning, as it were, this individual.

— Ted Bundy

What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out…

— Donald C. Peattie

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

— Celia Thaxter

“Genes in each cell set plant potential; environment governs size and quality...”

— Lou Voorhees

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

— Alan Cinis

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

— Janet Macunovich

The sudden appearance of mushrooms after a summer rain is one of the more impressive spectacles of the plant world.

— John Tyler Bonner

When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.

— Gwyneth Paltrow

You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and…

— Jacob Bronowski

Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes,…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

What really is happening, is the word is now out, that when you want to move your plant to Mexico or some…

— Donald Trump

I remember, as a boy of 17 years of age, this was a fascinating thing for me: how we human beings breathe…

— Percy Julian

There are so many different people that I've emulated vocally. In the rock world - Sebastian Bach, Vince Neil, Freddie Mercury, Robert…

— Fergie

Be grateful you’re not in the forest in France Where the average young person just hasn’t a chance To escape from the…

— Dr. Seuss

Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you…

— Anonymous

Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but…

— John Dewey

When a caterpillar eats a leaf, then a thrush eats the caterpillar, or when a hawk eats the thrush only 5 to…

— Richard Heinberg

I have found in life that if you want a miracle you first need to do whatever it is you can do…

— Jim Rohn

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

We need a firm cap on carbon emissions from fossil fuels. No coal, oil, or gas could enter the economy until the…

— Denis Hayes

Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will…

— Wendell Berry

The word 'vegetable' has no precise botanical meaning in reference to food plants, and we find that almost all parts of plants…

— Charles Heiser

The apparent physical stability of reefs belies an underlying natural turmoil of growth, death and destruction of calcareous organisms. Much like a…

— Jeremy Jackson

Balanced, sensible nutrition: eat food, not too much, mostly plants, a healthy diet ala Michael Pollan, modern physical activity on a daily…

— David Katz

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

— Doug Larson

Steam pipe betta than yuh paper. Black side plant it forever. We nah use no fertilize.

— Tarrus Riley

You have a feeling of achievement when you discover a new plant, even a plant that has no use.

— Richard Evans Schultes

With every breath, I plant the seeds of devotion, I am a farmer of the heart.

— Rumi

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

— Rupert Hughes

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

— Simone Weil

I believe that you should praise people whenever you can; it causes them to respond as a thirsty plant responds to water.

— Mary Kay Ash

“Don’t worry if the flowers pass, I’ll be right there to plant you more”

— Liana Cincotti

Robert Plant, Kenny Chesney, Mavis Staples, Taj Mahal, this incredible array of folks, all taught me a way to carry yourself with…

— Grace Potter

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

— E. B. White

A nuclear power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

— Anonymous

If any Muslim plants any plant and a human being or an animal eats of it, he will be rewarded as if…

— Muhammad

If we don't consciously plant the seeds of what we want in the gardens of our minds we'll end up with weeds.

— Tony Robbins

I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.

— Esther Williams

Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Praying is another way of singing.You plant in the tree the soul of lemons.You plant in the gardens the spirit of roses.

— Dannie Abse