He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
250,000 species of plants and animals recorded and deposited in museums throughout the world did not support the gradual unfolding hoped for… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Evolution has made us omnivores, and substantial quantities of meat can be produced by feeding plant matter whose production does not directly… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
A soil adapted to the growth of plants, is necessarily prepared and carefully preserved; and, in the necessary waste of land which… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
I died from a mineral and plant became, Died from the plant, took a sentient frame; Died from the beast, donned a… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Look after each other. As a couple. When you have kids, you'll want to put them first. Don't. Marriage is like a… — Nicholas Evans Copy Share Image
We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years… — Gray Davis Copy Share Image
The phytochemicals, antioxidants, and fiber- all of the healthful components of plant foods- originate in plants, not animals. If they are present,… — Colleen Patrick-Goudreau Copy Share Image
But what is work and what is not work? Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There has come a time when we can no longer remain silent but must speak up for our country which is being… — Di Morrissey Copy Share Image
It's your worst sin saving your f***ing life; It's the devil's knife carving holes into your soul so angels have a way… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The interpretations of science do not give us this intimate sense of objects as the interpretations of poetry give it; they appeal… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Eating vegetables, fruits and grains rarely causes total destruction of the plant or tree on which the food grew; after harvesting, seeds… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant… — Roberto Burle Marx Copy Share Image
Energy doesn't come to us so much from the things around us-although we can absorb energy directly from some plants and sacred… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same in the plant, was elaborated… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Our beliefs are rooted deep in our earth, no matter what you have done to it and how much of it you… — John Fire Lame Deer Copy Share Image
Japanese people cut their energy use by 25 percent immediately after Fukushima. They showed there was huge opportunity there. And instead, the… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours; and yet how… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Seeds carry life from generation to generation without end. Through the seeds speak the voices of the ancestors. Each time we plant… — Kenny Ausubel Copy Share Image
Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in,… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
One of the sages of the Talmud taught nearly 200 years ago that God could have created a plant that would grow… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
I'm particularly struck by the neo-socialist concern for the well-being of plants, animals, lakes and rivers, rain forests and deserts - particularly… — Robert Sirico Copy Share Image
We think we learn by growing a plant but we can't know if it's just surviving or truly living? We really don't… — Janet Macunovich Copy Share Image
One of the workshop participants had shown me a single 8 X 10 photograph of a power plant where he actually was… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
Without knowing it, we utilize hundreds of products each day that owe their origin to wild animals and plants. Indeed our welfare… — Norman Myers Copy Share Image
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
A couple degrees warmer would be good for humanity and planet, especially with more plant-fertilizing carbon dioxide in the air. [...] But… — Paul Driessen Copy Share Image
Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into Abernethy biscuits,… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image