Suppose we were (as we might be) an influence, an idea, a thing intangible, invulnerable, without front or back, drifting about like… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they… — Aristotle 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
My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything: from insect to man, from man to… — Ana Mendieta Copy Share Image
There are transitional forms between the metals and non-metals; between chemical combinations and simple mixtures, between animals and plants, between phanerogams and… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice should go a little further, and try to plant… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The word 'vegetable' has no precise botanical meaning in reference to food plants, and we find that almost all parts of plants… — Charles Heiser 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
When in 1963 we started large-scale research and testing with semi-dwarf varieties of wheat obtained from Mexico through Norman Borlaug, the new… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
To speak only of food inspections: the United States currently imports 80% of its seafood, 32% of its fruits and nuts, 13%… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
The chemical differences among various species and genera of animals and plants are certainly as significant for the history of their origins… — Ray Lankester Copy Share Image
What's even more unsettling is the way these people hide what they're doing from the public. They strip the labels off miracle… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant. — Andy Couturier 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
Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the… — Xenophon Copy Share Image
Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating foie gras, defending nuclear energy… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no nutrient, no protein, no vitamin, no mineral that can't be obtained from plant-based foods. — Michael Klaper Copy Share Image
The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Probe the universe in a myriad of points. ... He is a wise man who has taken many views; to whom stones… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our ingenuity in feeding ourselves is prodigious, but at various points our technologies come into conflict with nature's ways of doing things,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
