Plant Quotes · Page 19

Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.

— Leonardo da Vinci

We have vexed and bothered every plant and every animal on every continent.

— Diane Ackerman

The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth

— Ken Robinson

The message is that all things are connected. We have animal aspects, anthropological aspects, plant-animal aspects.

— John Dee

Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation.

— Nadine Gordimer

The craziest thing I've ever been called in my whole career is an industry plant.

— Nav

There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals…

— Jared Diamond

All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek,…

— Lynn Margulis

I have more questions than answers in this world as do most poets and writers. The field of memory we exist in…

— Joy Harjo

The gardener's work is never at at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground,…

— John Evelyn

It's very personal in California to live within hours, and sometimes just a few miles, of earthquake faults when nuclear plants were…

— Bonnie Raitt

I am a true adorer of life, and if I can't reach as high as the face of it, I plant my…

— Saul Bellow

One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every light bulb…

— Richard Marx

In the fullness of time, when it is our turn to give, we must in turn plant gardens that we may never…

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible…

— Aldo Leopold

Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed,-chased and hunted down as…

— John Muir

Life on earth is a whole, yet it expresses itself in unique time-bound bodies, microscopic or visible, plant or animal, extinct or…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

The groves and thickets of smaller trees are full of blooming evergreen vines. These vines are not arranged in separate groups, or…

— John Muir

In the scale of life there is a gradual decline in physical variability, as the organism has gathered into itself resources for…

— Chauncey Wright

I started studying herbalism and edible plants that existed in the wild. And then I realized, "Okay, cool. I know how to…

— Shailene Woodley

At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb…

— John Hersey

Energy is under siege by the Obama administration, under absolute siege. The EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency, is killing these energy companies,…

— Donald Trump

Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.

— Nan Fairbrother

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

— Anonymous

The root and the flower have to trust each other. If the root does not trust, the plant won't blossom.

— William Stafford

Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.

— Bill Mollison

A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you…

— Hamdi Ulukaya

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

— Jorge Luis Borges

If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

— Anonymous

I've always wanted to do an album with half the people I've worked with. People like Robert Plant, Paul Rodgers, Jeff Beck…

— Jason Bonham

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

— Woodrow Wilson

It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.

— Albert Einstein

I am an advocate of honesty and openness, and I think deceit is a dangerous seed to plant and let grow in…

— Cheryl Strayed

TO PLOW IS TO PRAY; TO PLANT IS TO PROPHESY, AND THE HARVEST ANSWERS AND FULFILLS.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I'm not perfect, but what's wonderful about eating a plant-based diet is, I don't have to be.

— Victoria Moran

even as human vitality is at its lowest ebb in the early morning, so it is with plant life in the early…

— Mabel Osgood Wright

If your faith isn't rooted in the Bible, it will wither like a plant pulled out of the soil.

— Billy Graham

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

— Carl Linnaeus