Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Every plant teaches us. When the blossom dies, the fruit appears in it. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“God gave the seed, but he wants the fruits back. Pick the seeds up. Plant the best ones. He promised the rain.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for… — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I play around with my Japanese Garden. Since Im half way to 70 today I need to start pruning trees and sharpening… — Jason Bateman Copy Share Image
Where two or more crops are taken normally, it is time to begin preparation for a good rabi crop by assembling the… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
Two [Massachusetts coal burning power plants] remain: Brayton Point in the South Coast region and Mt. Tom, just down the road. Within… — Deval Patrick Copy Share Image
Your fervent wishes can only find fulfillment if you succeed in attaining love and understanding of men, and animals, and plants, and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A long-term romance is like a rose bush. In any given season, a blossom might fall off. But if the plant is… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
A poem's essential discovery can happen at a single sitting. The cascade of discoveries in an essay, or even finding a question… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
It is therefore proper to acknowledge that the first filaments of the chick preexist in the egg and have a deeper origin,… — Marcello Malpighi Copy Share Image
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There’s one thing I will not do, ever: I will never talk to you about things you cannot change. It plants a… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
The earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect. Every plant is a manufacturer of soil.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Guess what it is that turns plants to coal. Pressure. Guess what it is that turns limestone to marble. Pressure. Guess what… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
In the summer there are twelve cottonwoods around the pool, which in the winter become an elevated thicket. There is also a… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
I believe that virtually everyone has the ability to either grow some food at home, or to find an appropriate location to… — Greg Peterson Copy Share Image
There are various causes for the generation of force: a tensed spring, an air current, a falling mass of water, fire burning… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
The ideal human diet looks like this: Consume plant-based foods in forms as close to their natural state as possible (“whole” foods).… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
For corporations to be bedfellows with the arts is good business for both. The architecture that houses a company is a more… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
When Isaiah predicted that spears would become pruning hooks, that's a reference to cultivating. Pruning and trimming and growing and paying close… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image