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
War challenges virtually every other institution of society-the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, the energy… — Walter Millis Copy Share Image
A deposit insurance system is like a nuclear power plant. If you build it without safety precautions, you know it’s going to… — L. William Seidman Copy Share Image
There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Always try to grow in your garden some plant or plants out of the ordinary, something your neighbors never attempted. For you… — Richardson Wright Copy Share Image
Even the most irresistible flowering plant, one that I call a 'key' performer, is part of a whole cast; it has to… — Penelope Hobhouse Copy Share Image
Nature herself does not distinguish between what seed it receives. It grows whatever seed is planted; this is the way life works.… — Mary Morrissey Copy Share Image
In love, treat your relationship as if you are growing the most beautiful flower. Keep watering it, tend to its roots, give… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I want to do the right things - I want to plant trees, I want to make sure that the indigenous forests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our nature is intelligent. In fact, everything is intelligent. Intelligence for me is information. Information is intelligence. And then there is information… — Horst Rechelbacher Copy Share Image
The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
I have a plant called Roger Franklin and he is really special. I'm not trying to sound weird, but he has a… — Bria Vinaite Copy Share Image
I have called this phenomenon of stealing common knowledge and indigenous science "biopiracy" and "intellectual piracy." According to patent systems we shouldn't… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Every flower of the field, every fiber of a plant, every particle of an insect carries with it the impress of its… — 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Blount Copy Share Image
Plants make the air! Do you understand what that means? Our food, our air, our very lives come from the plants. How… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
As some species of plants need to be burned to the ground in order for them to later flourish, I needed to… — Xeno Muller Copy Share Image
Everything seemed meaningless to me. All of a sudden. My own life, the lives of others, of animals of plants, the whole… — Erlend Loe Copy Share Image
The radiation of radium was "contagious"-Contagious like a persistent scent or a disease. It was impossible for an object, a plant, an… — Eve Curie Copy Share Image
If price spikes don't change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation, pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty will… — Mark Bittman Copy Share Image
The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India… — Naoto Kan Copy Share Image
When you see someone dying in front of you from a direct and simple cause, it's easier to deal with [that] than… — John H Richardson Copy Share Image
The columbine ... is a graceful slender creature, a female seeking retirement, and growing freest and most graceful where it is most… — Dorothy Wordsworth Copy Share Image
My mother felt we'd be earning a living during our entire adult lives, and therefore believed we should spend summers in learning… — Patricia A. Woertz Copy Share Image
At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined, and that you know the earth… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Everything in life is built on principles - plants, seas, birds, all of the natural elements of nature, they all follow and… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
Often, people take herbal medicines for a physical response, but what they find is that the body also responds in an emotional… — Karen Rose Copy Share Image
We recognize in a plant some unknown power, a single, form-giving force, which creates and conserves, which moves unwaveringly toward its end,… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
There's a country spread out in the sky, a credulous carpet of rainbows and crepuscular plants: I move toward it just a… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Allocating coal linkage to a generating company rather than to a specific plant gives companies the freedom to use the fuel in… — Piyush Goyal Copy Share Image
We should amuse our evening hours of life in cultivating the tender plants, and bringing them to perfection, before they are transplanted… — George Washington 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
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
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
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
I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them, and I have done so solely and entirely from an… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that there would not be one that resembles another, and not only plants… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
![“When you see someone dying in front of you from a direct and simple cause, it's easier to deal with [that] than famine or drought or a more indirect cause. It's overwhelming and frightening and kind of distant, but we do see it every day with plants and animals and species dying.” quote by John H Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d1d/john-h-richardson-38485_animal_when-you-see-someone-dying-in-front-of-y_1998991.jpg)
