Plant Quotes · Page 32

With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love.

— Rumi

Pessimism is carefully cultivated in some intellectual circles, as if it were a precious plant that the human race could not afford…

— Arthur Lynch

Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I'm sure that it doesn't.

— Ina May Gaskin

Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning

— Charles Rennie Mackintosh

The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera.

— Carl Linnaeus

Plant a good seed in the right spot and it will grow without further coaxing

— B. J. Fogg

Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.

— Wendell Berry

Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That's why I love vegetables, you know what they're about!

— Tom Jones

I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive…

— Sophie Thompson

Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the…

— Langston Hughes

What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the…

— Carl Sagan

Business is not the supreme virtue, and sanctity is not measured by the amount of work we accomplish. Perfection is found in…

— Thomas Merton

As the web issues out of the spider, As plants sprout from the earth, As hair grows from the body, even so,…

— Eknath Easwaran

When you get into Louisiana, it really is like a different country in a lot of ways. The plants you see are…

— Sam Trammell

A symbol in Chinese Buddhism is the lotus plant, which regenerates every year, symbolizing life, renewal, and the Buddha himself. Actually it…

— Alvin Leung

Chile has changed. The people have become more mature and they are more conscious of their rights. They want to participate and…

— Michelle Bachelet

But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer. And looking around, I noticed the other…

— Ruskin Bond

Men are like plants; the goodness and flavor of the fruit proceeds from the peculiar soil and exposition in which they grow.…

— J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life…

— Michel de Montaigne

There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard…

— Nikola Tesla

There's a great temptation to throw things in, as you put it, that you think are neat, or that you have a…

— Rebecca Stead

Summer romances cometo an end. That was part of the deal. They are built like certain plants or insects, not able to…

— Harlan Coben

The seasons don't matter to most of us anymore except as spectacles. In my county and in many places around this part…

— Bill McKibben

I am quite surprised and rather disappointed by the loneliness, isolation and indeed demonisation the sadly misunder­stood CO2 is experiencing. Thus, upon…

— Nick Minchin

You cannot choose your battlefield, God does that for you. But you can plant a standard where a standard never flew.

— Nathalia Crane

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work. I am the grass. I cover all.

— Carl Sandburg

See the long view: By all means "plant the corn, milk the cows, and feed the horses" but always keep the eventual…

— Warren G. Bennis

It is impossible to stand upright when one plants his roots in the shifting sands of popular opinion and approval.

— Thomas S. Monson

“Anyone who will eat his seeds today will be hungry tomorrow because he has nothing to plant and nothing to harvest later.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.

— Walter Lippmann

When you plant something, you invest in a beautiful future amidst a stressful, chaotic and, at times, downright appalling world.

— Monty Don

Men who pride themselves on their ancestry are like the potato plant, the most part of which is under ground.

— William Tyler

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

— Stephen Covey

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

— Anonymous

I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me.

— Evelyn Glennie

Your thoughts are seeds, and the harvest you reap will depend on the seeds you plant.

— Rhonda Byrne

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

— Lord Chesterfield

The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a…

— Mother Teresa

Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.

— Terence McKenna

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.

— Aldo Leopold